Tag: Prison
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Judge reluctantly lets appeal proceed in case of prisoner who missed SCOTUS deadline due to library closure
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge on Wednesday declined to let a jury trial proceed as scheduled and instead opted to let the Denver-based federal appeals court decide if two prison employees have immunity in an incarcerated man’s…
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Federal judge green-lights former inmate’s disability discrimination claim for trial
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge last month agreed a jury would decide whether the Colorado Department of Corrections intentionally discriminated against an incarcerated man by imposing restrictions on him after he failed to report to work because of his disability. However, U.S. District Court Judge Nina Y.…
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Colorado reduces prison sentences for inmates pursuing higher education
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Colorado has among the worst recidivism rates in the country, with more than 50% of people released from prison ending up back behind bars within three years. Now, the state is taking a new approach to address the issue by incentivizing prisoners to pursue higher education. House Bill 1037 reduces prison sentences for non-violent offenders who complete higher…
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Judge allows inmate’s lawsuit to proceed against prison officials for failure to protect, retaliation
A federal judge has allowed an inmate to pursue his lawsuit against Colorado prison officials based on allegations they failed to protect him, instructed other prisoners to fight him and retaliated against him for filing grievances. Although the defendants attempted to characterize Terance DeJuan Wilson as a “frequent filer” who regularly pursues scattershot claims in…
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Appeals court says prohibition on involuntary servitude not applicable to prison labor
Colorado voters who made slavery and involuntary servitude unconstitutional in 2018 did not mean to abolish the state Department of Corrections’ prison labor program, the Court of Appeals ruled last week. A three-judge panel for the appellate court turned away the constitutional challenge of inmate A. Mark Lamar, who argued the general requirement that prisoners…
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Colorado judge rejects inmate’s request to order changes to prison dental policies
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge has rebuffed an inmate’s request to order prison officials to halt their alleged unofficial policy of denying dental crowns to detainees, believing the Federal Bureau of Prisons should be left to manage its own medical protocols. Peter George Noe, who is incarcerated…
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Federal judge considers ‘misleading’ prison explanation of Boston bomber’s restrictions
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge on Wednesday questioned a Federal Bureau of Prisons official about the accuracy of the bureau’s response to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man sentenced to death for killing four people in April 2013 in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing, and who is now challenging…
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Westminster babysitter sentenced to 21 years for child abuse
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Westminster woman received a 21-year prison sentence recently in a child abuse case so severe, the toddler suffered two broken collar bones and head injuries that caused brain swelling. Brandi Alexandria Leclaire, 27, is serving her sentence in the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility and…
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Man sentenced to more than five decades in deadly Aurora bar fight
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Almost seven years after a bar fight left one person dead, one paralyzed and another seriously injured, one of the men responsible was sentenced to 54 years in prison on Friday. Bryant Montoya, 27, was convicted of second-degree attempted murder, second-degree assault and accessory to crime of first-degree murder following a three-day trial in August,…
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Coronavirus outbreak at Cañon City prison sickens dozens of inmates, 13 workers
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A new coronavirus outbreak has sickened 74 inmates and 13 staff members at the Fremont Correctional Facility in Cañon City, the Colorado Department of Corrections confirmed Tuesday. The prison in Fremont County launched a round…