US EditionDOJ opens investigation into Colorado prisons, youth facilities
The DOJ is investigating 21 state prisons and 12 youth centers for constitutional violations including inadequate care, unsafe conditions, and policies affecting transgender inmates.
- On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division opened a civil-rights investigation targeting 21 state prisons and 12 residential youth centers in Colorado.
- Local reporting and recent facility actions prompted heightened scrutiny, such as The Denver Post's coverage of youth malnourishment last month and DYS reopening Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center on Nov. 1 after August transfers.
- Internal incident reports described rampant allegations of excessive force, illicit drugs and staff sexual relationships at youth facilities, while parents last month reported weight loss and a 22-year-old hospitalized for renal failure.
- The Justice Department signaled a preference for corrective action before court involvement, with Governor Jared Polis' office and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser's office having no comment while DOC and DYS review the federal letter.
- After Colorado denied a transfer request for former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters two weeks ago, coverage noting the Trump administration announced the probe while President Donald Trump pushed for her release raised timing questions.
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DOJ Opens Wildcard Investigation Into Colorado Prisons, Youth Centers
The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division has announced a special investigation into conditions inside Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) and Colorado Department of Youth Services (DYS) facilities—the first of these undertaken since President Donald Trump took office in January. It comes amid reports of excessive restraint and solitary confinement in DYS facilities; systemic starvation of youth sentenced as adults; the Trump adminis…
DOJ Launches Civil Rights Investigation Into Colorado Prison System — Including the Facility Where Political Prisoner Tina Peters Is Being Held | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft
Colorado is running a political prison system, and one of its most high-profile victims is former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, now gravely ill inside a DOC facility that has repeatedly retaliated against her, denied her proper medical care, and subjected her to inhumane living conditions.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KTLO)-- The Trump Administration has officially begun an investigation into Colorado's Department of Corrections and Juvenile Detention Centers. The Justice Department says it is investigating potential violations of constitutional rights. In a letter to Colorado Governor Jared Polis, the Justice Department stated that it will be investigating Colorado prisons to ensure they are clean and safe for inmates. They also want…
Trump DOJ probes state's entire prison system in new plot to free jailed MAGA acolyte
President Donald Trump's Justice Department has come up with a new way to try to pressure the state of Colorado to release Tina Peters, a MAGA-favoring former elections clerk who went to prison for tampering with election equipment to try to prove Trump's 2020 election conspiracy theories.According ...
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News AddictsJUST IN: DOJ Launches Probe Into Colorado Prisons Amid Treatment Of Tina Peters
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced Monday that it has opened a civil investigation into conditions within facilities operated by the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) and Colorado Department of Youth Services (DYS) due to the treatment of former Republican clerk and recorder in Mesa County, Tina Peters. Peters, 70, was sentenced to a whopping nine years in prison after she was convicted on multiple felony and misdem…
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