Policing & Incarceration

Smaller communities across the state are beginning to see success with programs that have clinicians join law enforcement on mental and behavioral health-related calls.

The new law comes as significantly more incarcerated people become eligible for federal Pell Grants to pursue college.

Arron Julian, a 36-year veteran of tribal law enforcement, is tasked with improving response to crimes that are often underreported, under-investigated or unsolved.

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.