The mandated quarantines and isolations sought to save lives. But prolonged confinement undermined years of work to make Colorado’s prisons less traumatic for incarcerated people.
It’s been more than a year since many children and young adults in detention facilities across the state have seen their families, and education and other in-person services have been slow to start back up.
Since the 1970s, members of the Cora tribe from the Mexican state of Nayarit have been living and working̶—and now riding out a pandemic—in Gunnison County.
In communities with many reasons to distrust government efforts, vaccine distribution efforts by tribal and urban Native programs have expanded access and eased worries.