Posts Tagged ‘Colorado Prison News’
Law Students Beat Colorado ‘Supermax’ on Prisoner Recreation
By Christopher Zoukis Colorado State Penitentiary, opened in Cañon City in 1993, was one of the first state prisons built to be a top-security “supermax” facility – where the most violent or troublesome inmates in the state system would be kept in lockdown all but one hour per day. Other than for legal or medical…
Read MoreDIETRICK MITCHELL’S LIFE SENTENCE WAS COMMUTED FOUR YEARS AGO — SO WHY IS HE STILL IN PRISON?
By Dianne Frazee-Walker Dietrick Mitchell is just one of four dozen men in the Colorado Department of Corrections serving life without parole as adults in prison —sentenced when they were juveniles. Mitchell is now forty-years-old, but can easily be spotted in the prison yard with his awkward boyish looks. Tragically, men who were sentenced into…
Read MorePitkin County Jailer Obtains Protective Order Against Inmate
By Prison Legal News On September 25, 2013, a Pitkin County Jailer obtained a restraining order against a prisoner who threatened her family. Deputy Deborah Kendrick sought the order to prevent Robert Rice from contacting her, her husband — who is a Pitkin County sheriff’s deputy — and one of their family members. Kendrick said…
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