One official retired, another was fired, and a third was demoted over messages that ridiculed Black people, women, and ...

A 40-year-old Cañon City resident and U.S. Bureau of Prisons employee was recently indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver ...

A federal prison lieutenant is set to stand trial in August in a smuggling scheme where he allegedly accepted bribes to sneak ...

An unspecified incident at a prison in southeastern Colorado on Saturday left two inmates dead, injured a third and triggered a statewide freeze on prison visitation, according to state officials.

Two inmates, Michael J. Fisher and Charles Gates, died on June 8 at a privately owned correctional facility in Bent County. Colorado lawmakers raised concerns about the lack of ...

Sharletta Evans, who has advocated for clemency on behalf of dozens of inmates, told Denver7's Micah Smith that while many ...

The June 6 incident led to suspension of inmate visitations statewide and sent a third prisoner to the hospital.

The savior of Michigan basketball, Dusty May, has left the program after 2 years to take the head coach job with the NBA's ...

After a physical altercation at a Colorado prison in January, the Colorado Department of Corrections has determined that inmate Tina Peters is not guilty of assaulting another inmate. However, they ...

The Colorado Department of Corrections lifted visitation restrictions Monday at all facilities except the Bent County Correctional Facility, the site of a weekend “incident” in which two people died ...

The former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel is serving a life sentence for drug trafficking in the United States. In 13 missives addressed to the judge presiding over his case, he writes that he is suffer ...

A man’s death is under investigation after he was found unresponsive inside his cell at the high-security U.S. Penitentiary in Florence, according to federal officials. On Sunday, jail deputies ...