Jennifer Brown

Investigative Reporter 鈥� The Denver Post

Jennifer Brown

Jennifer Brown is a former Denver Post reporter. She has written about the child welfare system, mental health, education and politics. She previously worked for The Associated Press, The Tyler Morning Telegraph in Texas, and the Hungry Horse News in Montana.

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“Did I just get fired … via tweet?” Transgender troops in Colorado react to Trump announcement

July 26, 2017 at 4:54 p.m.

"Did I just get fired ... via tweet?" Staff Sgt. Patricia King asked on her Facebook page Wednesday shorty after President Donald Trump used Twitter to announce that transgender people...

Seismic shifts create rural-urban chasm in the culture, economy and politics of the state

January 24, 2018 at 5:00 p.m.

From the eastern plains to isolated mountain towns, from the Western Slope to the upper northeast hard by Nebraska, it's often said there are two Colorados. There is the Denver...

** FILE ** Washington state prisons Lt. Clan Jacobs walks through a block of cells at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton, Wash. in this Feb. 2, 2005 file photo. Nationwide, U.S. prisons and jails added nearly 1,000 inmates a week in the last year, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Colorado prisoners with deadliest infectious disease in U.S. denied treatment, lawsuit alleges

July 19, 2017 at 5:00 p.m.

Of the 2,280 prisoners diagnosed with the virus, the Colorado Department of Corrections treats only 70 per year.

Colorado Medicaid system data breach potentially exposed private information of 822 people

July 13, 2017 at 6:06 p.m.

The technology company at the center of an ongoing Medicaid payment fiasco in Colorado now says a system glitch might have inadvertently shared the private health information of 822 people.

Young woman who died in youth corrections center used strip of bed sheet, report says

June 28, 2017 at 2:54 p.m.

A 20-year-old woman who died in a youth corrections center in Lakewood last week used a strip from a bed sheet to strangle herself, according to a brief incident report...

State mental hospital no longer in “immediate jeopardy” of losing federal funding

June 23, 2017 at 9:40 p.m.

Colorado鈥檚 449-bed mental hospital in Pueblo is no longer in "immediate jeopardy" of endangering patient safety or losing its federal funding, state human services officials said Friday.

Troubled Colorado state mental hospital can’t keep up with inmate competency evaluations

June 22, 2017 at 6:40 p.m.

The state mental hospital cannot keep up with an unexpected surge in court-ordered competency evaluations for accused criminals, the Colorado Department of Human Services said Thursday in asking for relief...

A stethoscope is pictured in a general practitioner's office on December 4, 2014 in London, England.

Colorado budget lawmakers grill Medicaid department over failure to pay doctors, clinics, therapists

June 21, 2017 at 5:19 a.m.

Lawmakers demanded answers Tuesday from state Medicaid officials over the botched launch of a new computer system that has failed to pay hundreds of doctors, therapists and other health professionals...

Community College of Aurora censured for violating academic freedom of instructor

November 22, 2017 at 1:21 p.m.

The Community College of Aurora was censured by the nation's 100-year-old association for college professors Saturday for "serious departures from principles and standards of academic freedom" over the firing of...

Head of Colorado state mental hospital resigns as hospital is placed on “termination track”

June 15, 2017 at 6:31 p.m.

The head of Colorado's state mental institution has resigned in the midst of a staffing shortage that resulted in federal regulators determining the Pueblo hospital poses an 鈥渋mmediate and serious...

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“Did I just get fired … via tweet?” Transgender troops in Colorado react to Trump announcement

Seismic shifts create rural-urban chasm in the culture, economy and politics of the state

Colorado prisoners with deadliest infectious disease in U.S. denied treatment, lawsuit alleges

Young woman who died in youth corrections center used strip of bed sheet, report says

State mental hospital no longer in “immediate jeopardy” of losing federal funding

Troubled Colorado state mental hospital can’t keep up with inmate competency evaluations

Colorado budget lawmakers grill Medicaid department over failure to pay doctors, clinics, therapists

Community College of Aurora censured for violating academic freedom of instructor

Head of Colorado state mental hospital resigns as hospital is placed on “termination track”