DOJ investigating whether Colorado prisons and youth detention centers violate inmates’ rights

The Department of Justice, in a letter to Gov. Jared Polis, says it will determine whether the constitutional rights of ...
The Denver Post

Colorado juvenile detention staff violated strip-search policy 1,000 times in 9 months, watchdog finds

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Staff at Colorado’s juvenile detention centers violated policies meant to protect youth during strip searches more than 1,000 times during nine months ...
Colorado Public Radio

Strip searches at Colorado youth detention centers lacked oversight

Officials are raising concerns over how Colorado Division of Youth Services detention centers are conducting strip searches and finding little contraband. That’s according to a report released Tuesday ...
FOX31 Denver

Review of strip searches at Colorado juvenile detention centers unveils over 1K policy violations

DENVER (KDVR) — A review of strip searches at juvenile detention centers in Colorado unveiled more than a thousand policy violations. Child Protection Ombudsman of Colorado tells FOX31 it has the ...
9NEWS

Colorado quietly empties one of its largest juvenile detention facilities — internal emails reveal safety failures

GOLDEN, Colo. — The Colorado Division of Youth Services (DYS) quietly removed all juvenile offenders from one of the state's largest youth detention facilities, the Campus at Lookout Mountain in ...

Colorado reopens youth detention facility two months after safety concerns led to shutdown

The agency did not publicly announce the change but confirmed to 9NEWS that the center resumed limited operations on Nov. 1.