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2 dead inmates ID’d as Colorado Department of Corrections lifts most visitation restrictions
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 and a third was hospitalized, officials said. The incident reportedly took place on Saturday at the Las Animas facility in southeastern Colorado, according to a statement…
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2 people dead in incident at Bent County Correctional Facility; statewide visitation suspended
Visitations have been suspended at all Colorado Department of Corrections facilities across the state following an incident at the Bent County Correctional Facility that left two people dead and sent a third person to the hospital, according to multiple reports. In a statement on the CDOC’s Facebook page, the agency announced it was investigating the…
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Divided appeals court finds no prosecutorial misconduct in prison assault case
Colorado’s second-highest court concluded last week that a Lincoln County prosecutor did not misstate the law to a degree that undermined a jury’s assault verdict against the defendant. During closing arguments in Phillip Archuleta’s 2023 trial, the prosecutor suggested to jurors that Archuleta did not have to make contact with a corrections officer during a…