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抖阴ap: Intimidation tactics from the judicial branch cannot stand

March 27, 2023 at 6:01 a.m.

Now the OARC is makings accusations against six respected lawyers on the Commission on Judicial Discipline because it disagrees with their testimony to the legislature, with veiled threats to their...

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抖阴ap: Myth busting Colorado’s crime-wave lore

January 19, 2022 at 2:25 p.m.

Pundits across Colorado have begun pushing their pro-incarceration agenda using misleading statistics to exploit our fear of crime for political purposes while trying to drive a wedge in our communities.

Colorado's Division of Youth Services has undergone changes, including making facilities less like Spring Creek in El Paso County less like jails. A bill in the General Assembly this year aims to reduce recidivism. (Image courtesy Division of Youth Corrections)

Guest Commentary: Colorado鈥檚 youth deserve a better聽juvenile聽justice聽system

March 22, 2019 at 5:37 p.m.

Colorado has made remarkable improvements to its聽juvenile聽justice聽system, resulting in safer communities and fewer youth unnecessarily incarcerated. Due to bipartisan policy solutions,聽juvenile聽arrests declined 18 percent and filings to聽juvenile聽district court decreased 9...

This frame from a 2016 video shows staff restraining a detainee at what is now called the Colorado Division of Youth Services' Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center. According to a report, youths locked up in Colorado鈥檚 juvenile corrections system were isolated for hours in tiny, barren rooms, wrapped in full-body straitjackets, and subdued with 鈥渒nee strikes鈥� and other pain-compliance techniques. Those techniques have been phased out.

Lawmakers: Colorado’s juvenile detention system has failed to reform

September 15, 2017 at 4:40 p.m.

Division of Youth Services leaders agreed that change was needed and promised it would happen. The events of the past month have called this commitment into serious question.

Close-up of hands being held through prison gate

Guest Commentary: Missouri does youth corrections the right way; it抖阴ap past time for Colorado to do the same

March 4, 2017 at 5:00 p.m.

Despite the best intentions of youth corrections leaders across the country, most youth facilities -- including Colorado's -- still operate more like prisons than rehabilitation centers.

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