Subject:

Prisons

  • News

    December 6, 2007

    Death Sentence

    A bureaucratic loophole limits halfway house residents' access to health care, making it harder to survive on the outside.

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2007

    24 Years of Solitude, Then the Lawsuit

    A bureaucratic loophole limits halfway house residents' access to health care, making it harder to survive on the outside.

  • News

    November 15, 2007

    The Poisoned Pen of Fort Lyon Prison

    Bought by the state for a dollar, Fort Lyon is rich in history, asbestos, sick inmates — and trouble.

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2007

    "60 Minutes" in the Slammer

    Bought by the state for a dollar, Fort Lyon is rich in history, asbestos, sick inmates — and trouble.

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2007

    The Latest Supermax Threat: Elderly British Ladies

    Bought by the state for a dollar, Fort Lyon is rich in history, asbestos, sick inmates — and trouble.

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2007

    Understaffing the Supermax

    Bought by the state for a dollar, Fort Lyon is rich in history, asbestos, sick inmates — and trouble.

  • News

    August 16, 2007

    Fortress of Solitude

    The Bureau of Prisons is as good at keeping prisoners in as it is at keeping reporters out.

  • News

    August 16, 2007

    The Caged Life

    Is Thomas Silverstein a prisoner of his own deadly past — or the first in a new wave of locked-down lifers?

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2007

    Reporting Live from Supermax

    Is Thomas Silverstein a prisoner of his own deadly past — or the first in a new wave of locked-down lifers?

  • News

    June 14, 2007

    Sex Marks the Spot

    Numbers can lie, as shown by estimates of Mexican sex offenders.

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2007

    Muzzling the Messenger: A Supermax Story

    Numbers can lie, as shown by estimates of Mexican sex offenders.

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2007

    Pass the Liver, Hold the Fava Beans

    Numbers can lie, as shown by estimates of Mexican sex offenders.

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2007

    The Authority Thing

    Numbers can lie, as shown by estimates of Mexican sex offenders.

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2007

    Coming Home

    Numbers can lie, as shown by estimates of Mexican sex offenders.

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2007

    Coming Up Short

    Numbers can lie, as shown by estimates of Mexican sex offenders.

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2006

    Trouble in Mind

    Numbers can lie, as shown by estimates of Mexican sex offenders.

  • 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

    August 10, 2006

    Colorado Prison Blues

    Eric Reynolds was thirteen the last time he tasted freedom.

  • Film

    April 13, 2006

    Barred Bard

    Who knew Shakespeare was so good at rehabilitation?

  • News

    March 16, 2006

    Follow That Story

    A Man Out of Time

  • News

    December 15, 2005

    Grape Expectations

    The monks have moved on, but it's another vintage year in Cañon City.

  • News

    December 8, 2005

    Book Them

    Pen and stink in the Jeffco jail.

  • News

    November 24, 2005

    Checking Out of Lockdown

    Inmate suicides put the spotlight on medical care at Colorado's supermax.

  • News

    November 3, 2005

    The Price You Pay

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

  • News

    August 25, 2005

    "What You Deserve"

    A lawsuit claims brutal treatment of prisoners after last year's riot.

  • News

    May 12, 2005

    If the Shoe Fits

    Did prison officials look the other way while a guard's fetish turned violent?

  • News

    May 5, 2005

    Bringing Down the Brotherhood

    Inside the feds’ war on the country’s deadliest prison gang: 16 murders, 21 death-penalty cases, and snitches galore.

  • News

    February 17, 2005

    Starved for Attention

    How do you break a high-security hunger strike? Put a lid on it.

  • News

    January 13, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of January 13, 2005

  • News

    January 6, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of January 6, 2005

  • News

    December 23, 2004

    Going Off

    Life in prison can be a riot.

  • News

    December 23, 2004

    Maxed Out

    Shipping inmates to private prisons is Colorado's cheap solution to overcrowding and violence. But so far, it's cost plenty.

  • Film

    June 3, 2004

    The Unlikely Lambs

    Carandiru reveals the human side of Brazilian prisoners, then leads us to their slaughter.

  • News

    May 6, 2004

    Bulls Behaving Badly

    Inmates blow the whistle on male guards at a Pueblo women's prison.

  • News

    January 8, 2004

    Follow That Story

    Laundry Detail

  • News

    November 13, 2003

    Scratching the Bitch

    Joseph Paiva was born defective, but prosecutors stamped him a habitual criminal.

  • Film

    August 21, 2003

    Habitat for Inhumanity

    The story of the Magdalene asylums raises questions about the Catholic Church in Ireland.

  • News

    July 10, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of June 10, 2003

  • News

    June 26, 2003

    Cowboy Justice

    They ran the toughest cellblock in the most dangerous prison in the state. It was the perfect place to beat inmates.

  • 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 8, 2003

    Cellies

    Life with a cellie isn't quite hell.

  • News

    March 6, 2003

    Prisoners of Sex

    Colorado's costly program for violent teens was supposed to turn these girls around. Instead, they got turned out.

  • News

    January 2, 2003

    Locked and Loaded

    A year in the life of the state's most dysfunctional prison.

  • News

    December 19, 2002

    To Die Inside

    Nathan Jones's sentence was not supposed to be a death sentence.

  • News

    December 19, 2002

    Death on the Installment Plan

    Medical neglect, chronic disease, a hepatitis epidemic. Some Colorado prisoners pay for their crimes with their lives.

  • News

    September 12, 2002

    The Long Silence

    Federal prisoners' fight to get the word out reaches unprintable extremes.

  • News

    August 29, 2002

    Off Limits

    Prison break

  • 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

    November 22, 2001

    The Shifting Drug War

    The pendulum is swinging back from stiff mandatory sentences for drug offenses.

  • Film

    August 30, 2001

    Dirty Work

    A tale of prison gardeners is this summer's sweetest feel-good comedy.

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