Maxed Out: Shipping inmates to private prisons is Colorado's cheap solution to overcrowding and violence. But so far, it's cost plenty
McPrison: Corruption and Scandal at a Private Lockup
Captive Market: How Crime Pays for Corporate America
Reach Out and Gouge Someone: Inmate Phone Services
Just Hop in the Van, Man: Private Extradition Companies
This Jail For Hire: Shipping Inmates Out of State

The ForgottenClemency for these six prisoners could save millions and serve justice -- so why won't Governor Ritter try it?
Clemency's Tough CallsBefore Ritter, Colorado's governers proved that clemency's risks came with rewards.
The Caged Life Is Thomas Silverstein a prisoner of his own deadly past — or the first in a new wave of locked-down lifers?
Fortress of Solitude The Bureau of Prisons is as good at keeping prisoners in as it is at keeping reporters out.
The PunisherCensured but defiant, Carol Chambers goes after habitual criminals -- and cops, judges and lawyers -- like no other district attorney. But at what cost?
Checking Out of Lockdown Inmate suicides put the spotlight on medical care at Colorado's supermax.
Bringing Down the Brotherhood Inside the feds' war on the country's deadliest prison gang: 16 murders, 21 death-penalty cases, and snitches galore.
Starved for Attention How do you break a high-security hunger strike? Put a lid on it.
Shades of GuiltIn the murder trial of Krystal Voss, doubt was everywhere and nothing was reasonable.
The Hit Man Nobody Knows: Pablo Escobar's Top Assassin
A Broken Code: Secret Intelligence Unit at ADX
Marked for Death: Snitch Killings in USP Florence
The Killing Floor: A Death in Colorado's Supermax
Hard Cell: The Supermax Lockdown
The Circle Game: Oscar Rivera vs. the Feds
Taking it to the Max: One Inmate's Quest For Safety
The Women of Supermax: Prison Isn't Just For Tough Guys
End of the Line: ADX, The New Alcatraz

The Poisoned Pen of Fort Lyon Bought by the state for a dollar, Fort Lyon is rich in history, asbestos, sick inmates — and trouble.
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?
If the Shoe Fits Did prison officials look the other way while a guard's fetish turned violent?
Bulls Behaving Badly Inmates blow the whistle on male guards at a Pueblo women's prison.
Death on the Installment Plan Medical neglect, chronic disease, a hepatitis epidemic. Some Colorado prisoners pay for their crimes with their lives.
The Long Silence: Federal prisoners' fight to get the word out reaches unprintable extremes.
Wirtz Case Scenario: A Jailhouse Lawyer's Crusade
The Needle and the Damage Done: The Hep C Epidemic
Colorado's Oldest Lifer
Look For the Union URL: Labor Troubles at ADX
Fight Club: Prisoner Beatings at USP Florence
Waiting to Exile: Non-deportables Get Life
Buddha Behind Bars: Can Federal Prisons Find Inner Peace?
Con Heir: The Birdman's Disciple
The Pen is Mightier Than the Pen: Prison Censorship
Stealing Time: Aging Inmates
The Committed: A Prison for the Mentally Ill
Hard Time: Bunking With Marvin Gray
Update: State Settles Marvin Gray Case
King Rat: Chris Rodriguez
Killing Time: A Death Inside

Female Trouble: A guard's acquittal, new leadership -- and more allegations of misconduct at YOS
Prisoners of Sex: Colorado's costly program for violent teens was supposed to turn these girls around. Instead, they got turned out.
Extreme Aspen: Juvenile crime spree in resort town
Update: More fallout from Aspen's youthquake
The Boys Next Door: Housing Juvenile Sex Offenders
This Boy's Life: Joshua Beckius
Boy Wonder International Uproar Over a Juvenile Abuse Case
A Failure to Rehabilitate: The Decline of YOS
Dealing With the Devil , Part 2
Jacob Ind: The Killer and Mrs. Johnson
The Young and the Reckless: A Second Last Chance

Over and Over Again Spending half a billion dollars on new prisons won't solve the state's biggest crime problem: the staggering failure rate of parole.
The Long Road Home Why so many parolees go back to prison, and how a new approach could help turn them around
The Revolving Door Some parolees face a run-on sentence
Update: Halfway House Director Convicted
Dismal House: Exploiting Prisoners at a Halfway House
The Hayward Bus: One Woman's Quest to Fix the System
Safely Behind Bars: Fidel Ramos
Please Release Me: Why Parole Doesn't Work
Halfway House Absconders: Still Getting Away With It

Arapahoe County DA Charges Death-Penalty Fees to the State: How does DA Carol Chambers beat the high cost of a death-penalty prosecution? By billing the prison system.
Cruel and Unusual: Declaring prison a waste of his time and your money, a minor felon seeks his own execution.
Penalty Zone: An indepth series looking at Colorado's endless debate over Capital Punishment.
Charmin' Billy: William Cody Neal, Part 2
Judgment Day: Brandy Duvall's Killers, Part 2
Dead Man Talking: The Letters of Gary Davis
Frank Rodriguez: A Fight to the Death

Cowboy Justice They ran the toughest cellblock in the most dangerous prison in the state. It was the perfect place to beat inmates
The Cowboy Way: Union Defends Indicted Guards
A Real Harrass Man: The Paolino Lawsuits
Update: Joe Paolino Resigns
Full Disclosure: A Male Prison Guard Complains of Harrassment
Caught Off Guard: Sex Hijinks at Arkansas Valley

A Question of Intent: Rethinking Felony Murder
Zero to Life: The Lisl Auman Case
Update: The Auman Appeal and Felony Murder
Dead Reckoning: Michael Furlong's Unlucky Lovers
Liar, Liar: The DEA's Top Informant