Days after rejecting the same request, lawmakers signed off on millions of dollars in prison bed funding as overcrowding ...

The Colorado Legislature’s Joint Budget Committee reversed course on its denial of more funding for prison beds. The ...

Colorado lawmakers are proposing several changes to a state law that sponsors say would help ease overcrowding and reduce ...

A request by Colorado prisons to expand capacity by 900 beds was denied Wednesday by state lawmakers. The Colorado Department ...

It does sound like our initial denial got some traction,” budget committee chair Rep. Emily Sirota said. “But we’ve not seen ...

In a 4-2 vote, the Democrats on the JBC voted in a bloc to deny the dollars, complaining that the DOC lacked a plan to ...

Gov. Jared Polis' budget director is sounding an alarm about the need for new prison facilities amid a growing inmate ...

I want to know what it is (Gov. Jared Polis’) administration is going to do and going to support, beyond just continued ...

The Colorado legislature’s budget panel changed course on Wednesday, reversing its previous decision to deny the Department of Corrections $2.4 million request to pay for additional prison beds. Last ...

Legislators working on Colorado’s budget are considering an increase for daily per-person costs for private prisons. State ...

Peters, 70, was sentenced to nine years behind bars in October 2024 for helping an unauthorized person access sensitive ...