Prison - The Durango Herald

Patchwork health care for reservation inmates raises concern

ALBUQUERQUE – At a tribal jail in Washington state, an inmate with a broken leg banged on his cell door, screaming for pain medication, only to be denied. Hundreds of miles away, ...

DATE: Mar 31, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Hundreds of New Mexico inmates held past parole date

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Joleen Valencia had resisted the temptation to count her days to freedom. She had learned inside a New Mexico prison that tracking time only added to the anxie...

DATE: Jan 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

AG plans to fight $1.9M claim for overturned conviction

DENVER – Colorado’s attorney general is fighting a claim for $1.9 million in compensation filed by a man who spent 28 years in prison for a rape conviction that was eventually overturned. ...

DATE: Jan 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Rural Colorado counties spending hundreds of thousands on jail overflow

Archuleta County expects costs will top $250,000 in 2017

DATE: Jul 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Chicago inmates can order fancy Italian pizza made in jail

CHICAGO – How can you get a gourmet Italian pizza delivered right to your door for no more than $7? Get locked up at Cook County Jail in Chicago. Inmates in the jail’s medium-secu...

DATE: May 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Lawmakers call for clemency for inmate released 90 years early

DENVER – Colorado’s House unanimously called on the governor last week to grant clemency to a robbery-kidnapping convict who is back in prison after being mistakenly released decades early a...

DATE: Apr 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Are too many of our young people going to prison?

Student activists fighting for more education, less incarceration

DATE: Mar 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Judge knocks 2 years off former exterminator’s 21-year prison sentence

Man stole thousands from customers’ homes over 30 years

DATE: Jan 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado inmate freed early, jailed again asks for release

Man started family after he was mistakenly freed from prison

DATE: Dec 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado’s inmate population is growing

Tougher DUI law leads to spike

DATE: Dec 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Obama administration to phase out, end private prison use

Audit found more safety violations at private facilities

DATE: Aug 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Minorities overrepresented throughout criminal process in Colorado

At a time when inequities in criminal justice are the focus of intense national debate, blacks and Latinos are overrepresented at every step in Colorado’s criminal process compared with thei...

DATE: May 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News