Policing & Incarceration

Colorado programs are working to scale up amidst COVID-19, prison staffing shortages and technology backlogs.

The Western Slope initiative aims to prevent people from returning to jail, prison or the emergency room.

Most reentry support is designed for men, but women make up a growing number of those incarcerated across the country, including in Colorado.

University of Denver law professor Tom Romero, a scholar of Denver’s history of systemic racism and segregation, interviews journalist Rubinstein about his new book.

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.

As COVID-19 reaches Colorado’s prisons and jails, the state correctional system and each local jail take their own approaches.

The DU Prison Arts Initiative’s production of “A Christmas Carol” was a chance for women incarcerated at a Denver prison to give back to the community.

A process for identifying criminal suspects, known as a “showup,” is under scrutiny in Colorado and nationwide.

A new Colorado law aims to remove the stigma of past criminal convictions for people seeking employment.