Arrests & Sentencing

Investigators said they learned about the plan by listening to recorded jail calls

"I don't know how you can look at yourself in a mirror," said Judge Patricia Cosgrove

No corrections officer or sheriff's department employee who worked inside the jail wrote a letter on Ken Mills' behalf

The judge told Michael Dutcher that she couldn't imagine a worse crime

Thomas Woodard Jr. appeared to have little or no reaction as 11 family members expressed their grief in court Thursday

Advocates hope the new pilot program will ultimately lead to more prison closures

A flaw in the new good-conduct credit program caused some inmates' sentences to be lengthened rather than cut short

Some are calling it the first significant sentence reform in Colorado in almost 40 years

The CO also provided the inmate with razors and intel on when cell inspections would take place, the assistant sheriff said

"I think the rest of his life is going to be a totally barbaric existence," said a law professor

"People who say that a person of 18 and six weeks is biologically different than a person of 17 and 364 days belong to the Flat Earth Society," said an attorney

COBA is still trying to recover its investment, which came from union retirement funds