Tag: Sterling Correctional Facility
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Colorado legal settlement would improve housing, care for trans women inmates
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Taliyah Murphy received a letter in early 2018 about a soon-to-be-filed class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of transgender women like her who were housed in men’s prisons in Colorado. It gave her hope. Murphy and other trans women in Colorado had faced years of sexual harassment and often violence from staff members and fellow incarcerated…
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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,…
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Fifth prison inmate in Colorado dies from COVID-19
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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 fifth Colorado prison inmate has died from COVID-19, according to state health department data. The 71-year-old man, who was serving a sentence at the Sterling Correctional Facility, died Wednesday at the North Colorado Medical Center…
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More than 350 infected at Fremont County prison in second largest COVID outbreak among state inmates
A widening coronavirus outbreak at the Fremont Correctional Facility near Cañon City has spiraled to become the state prison system’s second-largest on record, infecting 356 inmates and 24 workers, new data show. Hundreds of new COVID-19 cases were reported at the prison Wednesday on the Colorado Department of Corrections website, a more than fourfold increase…