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Law Students Beat Colorado ‘Supermax’ on Prisoner Recreation

Colorado State Penitentiary opened in Canon 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 appointments, during that

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Pitkin 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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