Tag: Annie Skinner
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Corrections department bows to criticism and rescinds new no-crime charge policy for escapes from halfway houses
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Department of Corrections has rescinded a new policy barring parole officers from seeking criminal charges for escapes from community-corrections halfway houses after law enforcement officials, prosecutors and halfway house operators criticized the policy as jeopardizing public safety. State corrections officials reversed course at…
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Colorado inmates, relatives call coronavirus a death sentence, urge more early releases
At 84 years old, Anthony Martinez is nearly blind and deaf. He can no longer walk on his own and his kidneys are failing. He struggles to write his own name, his niece says, a sign of brain deterioration after more than 30 years in prison. And though he seemingly poses little threat to anyone,…