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Brett Boyles, who was found guilty of second-degree murder by a Chaffee County jury in December, was sentenced to 96 years with five years mandatory parole for the 2018 murder ....
Worries that potential co-conspirators in the murder of Colorado Corrections chief Tom Clements escaped criminal charges prompted the office of former Gov. John Hickenlooper to push corrections officials to hire a retired FBI agent to review the case and state policies, records and interviews show. The retired agent submitted his findings to the state in August 2018, but his report has never been shared with the public despite the state paying his firm nearly $40,000. The handling of the case has long been a source of contention in El Paso County. Critics maintain El Paso County Sheriff Bill Elder and El Paso County District Attorney Dan May mishandled aspects of the case. ....
The cruel reality of solitary confinement ought to shock all caring and thinking people One night in January of 2014, two prison guards at the Colorado State Penitentiary walked a man in handcuffs and an inmate’s uniform down the prison hallway and deposited him in a solitary cell designated “R.F.P. Ad. Seg.: Administrative Segregation, Removed from Population. Solitary confinement.” His time in that cell would be spent in crushing solitude; inside a small box almost completely removed from human interaction. He would not be alone in experiencing the quiet brutality of solitary confinement. Across the nation, between 50,000 and 60,000 other people were in boxes just like his, spending 22-24 hours of their day in a cell the size of a parking space. They would eat, sleep, and live penned in by cement walls and a steel door, never more than a few feet from their toilet. ....