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Halfway house operators in Colorado have long been cited for failing to comply with standards, lapses that can lead to dangerous consequences. Yet regulators rarely force facilities to improve.
A Colorado Springs homeless shelter for families that has been trying to close since August is continuing to work on getting remaining families placed into subsidized housing programs.
Colorado’s halfway houses were intended to reduce recidivism, but insiders describe a system plagued by a lack of training and support, costs that can burden residents with debt and overly harsh rules that have sent many back in prison.
On the heels of the July 30 closure of Family Promise, Colorado Springs’ only dedicated emergency shelter for homeless families, another shelter catering to homeless families, City Hope, will close
Julius Hammond-Desir and Samantha Schwartz are accused in the killing of 26-year-old Dorchester resident Dijoun Beasley at the South Shore Plaza in Braintree on...