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Parole

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Jennifer Reali sings! "Fatal Attraction" killer now on fire for Jesus

    At her parole hearing last summer, Jennifer Reali insisted that she's a different person from the 29-year-old, ninja-clad assassin who ambushed and killed her lover's wife, Dianne Hood, outside Hood's lupus support meeting in 1990. The parole board didn't entirely agree, but there's no question that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Tara Perry and the Clemency Six: Where are they now?

    It was almost three years ago that I first got interested in the case of Tara Perry, subject of this week's feature, "The Girl Who Fell to Earth." Perry was among several inmates considered strong candidates for clemency -- all of whom were serving disproportionately long sentences and appeared to ... More >>

  • News

    November 24, 2011

    The Big Bitch

    The secret behind long sentences handed out to repeat offenders in the 18th Judicial District

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Darrell Havens: Lawsuit reinstated in police shooting that left him paralyzed

    Darrell Havens.​A federal judge has ruled that Darrell Havens can proceed with his lawsuit against the Arvada police officer who shot him during a car-theft sting operation in 2007, leaving him a quadriplegic. The decision has Havens' attorneys poised to conduct a fresh investigation of the c ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2011

    How victim rights became a juggernaut shaping spending, laws and the future of punishment

    Darrell Havens.​A federal judge has ruled that Darrell Havens can proceed with his lawsuit against the Arvada police officer who shot him during a car-theft sting operation in 2007, leaving him a quadriplegic. The decision has Havens' attorneys poised to conduct a fresh investigation of the c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    Darrell Havens: Expert challenges police version of shooting that left 19-year-old paralyzed

    Darrell Havens.​In an affidavit filed in federal court, a veteran cop turned high-profile private investigator claims that an Arvada police officer who fired on an unarmed suspect during a car-theft sting operation in 2007, leaving the man a quadriplegic, was not justified in the use of deadly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    Robert Walters asked Michael Leathers to kill his wife before hiring another man, police say

    ​ Robert Walters, the subject of this week's cover story, "Dead End," was persistent, prosecutors say. After one man declined Walters's request to kill his wife, he turned to Rodrick Williams, a career criminal who accepted the job but then ratted Walters out to the police. So who was the fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    John Hickenlooper stacks parole board with cops and familiar faces

    ​We've noted in this space before before the tendency among Colorado governors to load up the state parole board with former Denver police officers, as if the job was essentially an $85,000-a-year private security gig. Judging from John Hickenlooper's new appointments to the board, that streak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Parole re-entry guide helps freed former convicts face mean streets, lean job prospects

    ​There's nothing quite like the transition from doing hard time to looking for a job in hard times. Every year, Colorado's prison system sends about 10,000 felons back to society -- and roughly two-thirds of them end up back in prison within three years. In most cases, their return is not due ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Colorado Juvenile Equal Protection Act: Should terms be lowered for 48 lifers busted as juvies?

    Claire Levy.​Although Representative Claire Levy has gotten plenty of attention for her sponsorship of THC driving limits, and her change of heart over the best possible standard, she's equally passionate about the Colorado Juvenile Equal Protection Act, which is slated to go before the judici ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    Open exactly one month, Skew skids to a close after employees allegedly steal from owner

    Lori MidsonSkew, according to owner Ton Phairatphibon, was skewered -- by its own employees​ Weird. Just weird. That was the overriding observation last night at Skew, the globalized food-on-a-stick restaurant that Ton Phairatphibon opened at 2070 South University Boulevard exactly one month ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2011

    Tom Clements, new Colorado prison chief: Can he bust out of the state's revolving door?

    Tom Clements.​This week, the Colorado Senate unanimously confirmed the appointment of Tom Clements as Department of Corrections executive director. It's not one of the most glamorous posts in Governor John Hickenlooper's cabinet, certainly, but it's one of the most crucial if the state is goin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Bill Ritter's commutations draw praise, bitter rebukes

    Mitchell.​Only days after I posted a few remarks about Bill Ritter's play-it-safe approach to pardons and his reluctance to commute excessive sentences, the departing governor delivered a slew of bolder pardons and even a few commutations, stunning some grateful convicts and raising hackles el ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2010

    Michael Tesman: No kidnapping charge in case of text-message-aided bust

    Michael Tesman.​A week ago today, Michael Tesman was arrested in what a Douglas County Sheriff's Office release described as a second-degree kidnapping. Authorities reportedly coordinated the bust with help from Tesman's alleged victim -- his ex-wife, whose text messages about her location wer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2010

    Bill Ritter's baby steps toward prison reform

    The pen is mightier than the pen: Governor Bill Ritter signs a drug sentencing reform bill. ​After the embarrasing political scrum over the sex offender bill that prompted Governor Bill Ritter to veto the mess last week, it's easy to overlook the fact that something was actually accomplished o ... More >>

  • News

    April 29, 2010

    Operation Cock Block tries to protect women's hearts and pocketbooks from this crooked Casanova

    The pen is mightier than the pen: Governor Bill Ritter signs a drug sentencing reform bill. ​After the embarrasing political scrum over the sex offender bill that prompted Governor Bill Ritter to veto the mess last week, it's easy to overlook the fact that something was actually accomplished o ... More >>

  • News

    March 25, 2010

    The evidence that put Willie Clark away

    The pen is mightier than the pen: Governor Bill Ritter signs a drug sentencing reform bill. ​After the embarrasing political scrum over the sex offender bill that prompted Governor Bill Ritter to veto the mess last week, it's easy to overlook the fact that something was actually accomplished o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    From Cañon City to Maui: Ex-con Weldon Long's strange trip

    ​It sounds like a tidy piece of inspirational fiction: A coke-snorting, booze-guzzling dropout squanders every opportunity in life, turns to armed robbery, burglary and sleazy telemarketing scams, spends much of his adult life behind bars as a self-proclaimed "worthless piece of shit" -- then ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2007

    Casey's Making Moves

    ​It sounds like a tidy piece of inspirational fiction: A coke-snorting, booze-guzzling dropout squanders every opportunity in life, turns to armed robbery, burglary and sleazy telemarketing scams, spends much of his adult life behind bars as a self-proclaimed "worthless piece of shit" -- then ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2007

    A Little Confidence

    ​It sounds like a tidy piece of inspirational fiction: A coke-snorting, booze-guzzling dropout squanders every opportunity in life, turns to armed robbery, burglary and sleazy telemarketing scams, spends much of his adult life behind bars as a self-proclaimed "worthless piece of shit" -- then ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2007

    The Authority Thing

    ​It sounds like a tidy piece of inspirational fiction: A coke-snorting, booze-guzzling dropout squanders every opportunity in life, turns to armed robbery, burglary and sleazy telemarketing scams, spends much of his adult life behind bars as a self-proclaimed "worthless piece of shit" -- then ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2007

    Coming Home

    ​It sounds like a tidy piece of inspirational fiction: A coke-snorting, booze-guzzling dropout squanders every opportunity in life, turns to armed robbery, burglary and sleazy telemarketing scams, spends much of his adult life behind bars as a self-proclaimed "worthless piece of shit" -- then ... More >>

  • News

    November 3, 2005

    The Price You Pay

    The cost of sending money to prisoners just went up -- way up.

  • News

    February 10, 2005

    Follow That Story

    Shaken to the Core

  • Music

    June 3, 2004

    Critic's Choice

    Otter Pops

  • News

    March 11, 2004

    Follow That Story

    Back in the Brig

  • News

    February 13, 2003

    Bull's Eyeful

    The sordid legal saga of Katica Crippen, Second Amendment pinup girl.

  • News

    March 1, 2001

    A Mile High

    Trick or treatment?

  • News

    October 5, 2000

    Hard Time

    The oldest lifer in Colorado prisons is dying to be anywhere but here.

  • Film

    October 15, 1998

    Soul of the Matter

    The oldest lifer in Colorado prisons is dying to be anywhere but here.

  • Film

    December 11, 1997

    Oklahoma Gothic

    The oldest lifer in Colorado prisons is dying to be anywhere but here.

  • News

    February 13, 1997

    Letters

    The oldest lifer in Colorado prisons is dying to be anywhere but here.

  • News

    July 18, 1996

    The Sins of Youth

    Colorado gambles millions on a second last chance for violent teens

  • News

    September 13, 1995

    STILL GETTING AWAY WITH IT

    THE STATE IS CATCHING MORE HALFWAY-HOUSE ABSCONDERS THAN EVER. UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S ALSO LETTING MORE CRIMINALS ESCAPE.

  • News

    June 7, 1995

    AGAINST THE WIND

    CONTRARY TO POPULAR OPINION, GALE NORTON'S QUEST FOR THE SENATE WILL BE ANYTHING BUT A BREEZE.

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