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DENVER—Denver has a new $158 million at a downtown justice complex that will also include a new courthouse.
City officials dedicated the 1,500 inmate capacity Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center Wednesday.
The facility is named after Philip Van Cise, a district attorney who prosecuted mobsters and the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, and John Simonet, a former Denver corrections director.
Once the new Denver courthouse across a plaza from the new jail is open in July, sheriff’s deputies will be able to walk inmates into courtrooms for hearings.
Currently, deputies must escort handcuffed and shackled inmates through the halls at the Denver City and County Building.
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Information from: The Denver Post,
