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Parole

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    Guy Cruz, probation officer, allegedly told woman no sex = jail

    Guy Cruz is no longer a probation officer for the 4th Judicial District, and neither he is a high school tennis coach, the next gig he took up. But the Pueblo resident is in big trouble for allegedly threatening a parolee with jail or a loss of access to her son if she didn't get horizontal with him ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Jeffrey Wells, parole officer, accused of forgery to keep arrestees in jail longer

    Jeffrey Wells, a Department of Corrections parole officer based in Grand Junction, is well regarded by his fellow employees, who recently named him top employee of the quarter. But he's less venerated by John Morgan and three other parolees, who are currently suing him for allegedly forging document ... More >>

  • News

    February 23, 2012

    Sixteen-year-old Tara Perry followed her man into crime and madness

    Jeffrey Wells, a Department of Corrections parole officer based in Grand Junction, is well regarded by his fellow employees, who recently named him top employee of the quarter. But he's less venerated by John Morgan and three other parolees, who are currently suing him for allegedly forging document ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    Senate Bill 241: Is Colorado ready to fix parole's revolving door?

    ​Over the years, we've written frequently about the breakdowns in Colorado's parole system -- how heaping mandatory parole on top of prison sentences and making ill-prepared felons jump through multiple hoops drives up prison costs. Now there finally seems to be some serious efforts among lawm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2010

    Darrell Havens: Car thief paralyzed by Arvada police shooting in standoff over parole deal

    Darrell Havens.​In June, I wrote about Darrell Havens, the paralyzed car thief whose medical parole was canceled after Arvada police chief Don Wick complained. A month later, the situation appears no closer to a resolution.

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2010

    Robert Knudsen: Sexually violent predator leaves Wheat Ridge on heels of parole violation

    Robert Knudsen.​One of the most uncomfortable responsibilities for municipalities these days is to inform the citizenry that a sexually violent predator has come to town. So imagine how delighted the folks in Wheat Ridge were to let folks know that one who'd previously been living in the commu ... More >>

  • News

    June 24, 2010

    Paralyzed in a police shooting, Darrell Havens is paying a terrible price for his crimes. So are taxpayers.

    Robert Knudsen.​One of the most uncomfortable responsibilities for municipalities these days is to inform the citizenry that a sexually violent predator has come to town. So imagine how delighted the folks in Wheat Ridge were to let folks know that one who'd previously been living in the commu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    Josh "Penal" Penry: Felons vote the Democratic ticket

    "How can I woo the sex offender vote?"​Yes, it's the season for blustery rhetoric and high-pressure posturing down at the statehouse. But few stunts can match, for sheer unintended hilarity, this recent blast from Colorado Senate Republicans, denouncing a bill to restore voting rights to stat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    Darrell Havens: State yanks parole for paralyzed thief after cops complain

    Without a special parole, medical care for Darrell Havens could cost the state more than $2 million before he's eligible for release.​A 22-year-old convicted car thief, left a quadraplegic by police gunfire and now costing the state prison system $200,000 a year for his care, was recently gran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2010

    Samuel Crespin, number five in Denver's 50 most wanted: Busted

    Samuel Crespin has just joined another list...​This past weekend, the Denver Police Department released a roster of its fifty most wanted criminals -- and since then, it's been steadily rounding up the targeted scofflaws. A quartet of the accused were hauled in almost immediately, led by Fred ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    Richard Charles MacNeill, alleged Band-Aid Bandit, peeled off to jail

    Is this man Richard Charles MacNeill?​Yet another memorably monikered scofflaw is allegedly off the streets. First it was Timothy McGlothin, thought to be one of the Hoppin Hooded Bandits, whose arrest was announced yesterday. And now it's Richard Charles MacNeill, who Aurora Police think is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    John Johnson, still lost in the system: Counting the years of his never-ending parole

    John Johnson's now in the tenth year of what began as a four-year sentence.​Four years ago, in a feature called "Over and Over Again," I reported on the staggering number of nonviolent offenders stuck in Colorado's revolving-door version of parole -- and costing the state millions of dollars. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Scott "Fear Factor" McInnis is very, very concerned about your safety

    ​Governor Bill Ritter's modest proposal to parole hundreds of inmates a few weeks or months before their mandatory release date, thereby cutting millions from the state budget, has become the political whipping boy for his most opportunistic critics, from GOP legislators to Weld County Distric ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    Life on the street for homeless parolees: "It sucks"

    ​Three years ago, in a feature titled "Over and Over Again," I looked at one of the primary reasons for the staggering failure rate of parolees in Colorado. That would be the fact that more and more prisoners are paroling homeless, with no job prospects and little preparation for what they're ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2008

    Josh Penry's fears about a plethora of parolees a big mythtake

    Josh Penry (pictured here) wasn't a happy man at the legislative hearing on parole policy December 8, and that's probably a good thing. Penry, the Fruita Republican state senator who takes a back seat to no one in his tough-on-crime posturing, has been hollering about the supposedly alarming increa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2008

    Breaking News: Joe Principe's standoff with the cops ends badly

    Three views of Joe Principe. The call came into my voicemail Monday morning, November 17. "I'm calling to give you the exclusive rights to a standoff with the government," the voice said. "I'm not going to leave my house. They're jamming me up again… after all this nonsense that I've been t ... More >>

  • News

    November 6, 2008

    Can a troubled Colorado prison change the way inmates think?

    Three views of Joe Principe. The call came into my voicemail Monday morning, November 17. "I'm calling to give you the exclusive rights to a standoff with the government," the voice said. "I'm not going to leave my house. They're jamming me up again… after all this nonsense that I've been t ... More >>

  • Music

    July 17, 2008

    Paradox Lounge

    Put some teeth into it!

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2008

    From Supermax to a Family of Four

    Put some teeth into it!

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2008

    Shmuck of the Week

    Put some teeth into it!

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2008

    Pandering Over Parole at the Statehouse

    Put some teeth into it!

  • News

    January 31, 2008

    Pro and Con

    Amadeus Harlan has spent his life playing everyone around him — but not as a Denver Bronco.

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2007

    Throwing the Book at Parole

    Amadeus Harlan has spent his life playing everyone around him — but not as a Denver Bronco.

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2007

    Chief Michaud Given Parole

    Amadeus Harlan has spent his life playing everyone around him — but not as a Denver Bronco.

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2007

    Busted in Sin City

    Amadeus Harlan has spent his life playing everyone around him — but not as a Denver Bronco.

  • News

    September 21, 2006

    Head Games

    At least one out of every five Colorado prisoners is mentally ill -- some violent, some undetected or untreated. How did the Big House become the Bug House?

  • News

    June 5, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of June 5, 2003

  • News

    May 22, 2003

    The Revolving Door

    Some parolees face a run-on sentence.

  • News

    May 22, 2003

    The Long Road Home

    Why so many parolees go back to prison, and how a new approach could help turn them around.

  • News

    May 23, 2002

    Cruel and Unusual

    Declaring prison a waste of his time and your money, a minor felon seeks his own execution.

  • News

    June 28, 2001

    Shelter From the Storm

    In trying to keep the streets safe, Denver almost made a clean sweep of its homeless providers.

  • News

    October 19, 2000

    A Man of Convictions

    Bob Sylvester threatened to send these men back to prison. Now they're sending him back.

  • News

    February 3, 2000

    Off Limits

    Prison nation...

  • News

    November 4, 1999

    Follow That Story

    Halfway to Nowhere.

  • News

    August 26, 1999

    Captive Market

    Jobs. Gadgets. Profits. Crime pays big-time for the prison-industrial complex.

  • News

    November 19, 1998

    The Hayward Bus

    One woman's long, long journey to fix the parole system and free her husband.

  • News

    October 8, 1998

    Buddha Behind Bars

    For these federal prisoners, their last chants finally gave them inner peace.

  • News

    September 3, 1998

    Dismal House

    Ex-con Bob Sylvester wanted to help parolees go straight. But angry former supporters say that what happened at his shelter was pretty twisted.

  • News

    July 3, 1997

    Safely Behind Bars

    Prison life didn't suit prominent inmate activist Fidel Ramos, but parole was even worse.

  • News

    April 17, 1997

    Teen Anger

    After young Joe Gallegos was let back into society, all hell broke loose.

  • News

    April 3, 1997

    Inside Information

    Prison reformers decry the state parole board's approach toward potential parolees.

  • News

    January 9, 1997

    Please Release Me

    Colorado faces a boom in parolees--and rising evidence that parole isn't working.

  • News

    August 8, 1996

    This Jail for Hire

    Colorado's cheap solution to prison overcrowding has cost inmates plenty. It could cost the state millions.

  • News

    August 1, 1996

    Stealing Time

    As its inmate population ages, the Colorado prison system discovers there's no con like an old con.

  • News

    July 25, 1996

    The Committed

    The state pours millions of dollars--and controversial social theory--into a prison for mentally ill felons.

  • News

    July 11, 1996

    Jack's Back

    The state had an opportunity to lock up rapist and career criminal Jack Ainsworth for good. Now it's too late.

  • News

    June 21, 1995

    AN INCOMPLETE SENTENCE

    FOR A DOZEN YEARS, FUGITIVE PEDOPHILE JAMES CHRISTENSEN CLAIMS HE LIVED CRIME-FREE. THAT'S NOT ENOUGH FOR THE STATE PAROLE BOARD.THE SINS OF THE FATHER WHEN PEDOPHILE JAMES CHRISTENSEN WAS SENTENCED UNDER THE DAY-TO-LIFE STATUTE, THE STATE DIDN'T FIGURE O

  • News

    April 26, 1995

    HOMEWARD BOUND

    CRIME MAY NOT PAY, BUT ELECTRONIC HOME DETENTION SURE DOES.

  • News

    November 23, 1994

    ON THE OFFENSIVE

    CRIME MAY NOT PAY, BUT ELECTRONIC HOME DETENTION SURE DOES.

  • News

    September 7, 1994

    STRAIGHT TIME

    CRIME MAY NOT PAY, BUT ELECTRONIC HOME DETENTION SURE DOES.

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