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Colorado’s new prisons chief comes out of retirement from Kansas to continue work Tom Clements was already doing.

BRIGHTON, Colo. — Two families connected in tragedy came together Saturday to help each other heal through the pain. It has been seven years since Bryan Seymour took his own life, and for the past four years, his family has held a benefit car show in his honor. But the Bryan Seymour Scholarship Fund Car […]

DENVER — The early results of an audit of the sentences of prisoners in Colorado has found potentially hundreds of errors. Corrections officials are alerting judges throughout the state to the errors. The reviews are happening after it was disclosed that the man accused of killing Department of Corrections chief Tom Clements and Commerce City […]

The Colorado Department of Corrections new Executive Director was announced Friday.

DENVER — Thomas Guolee, a suspected member of the white supremacist 211 Crew and an associate of murder suspect Evan Ebel, has been arrested, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday evening. Police have been seeking Guolee, 31, since last week. He and another man, James Lohr, were wanted for questioning in connection with […]

DENVER — A Saudi man being investigated for the murder of former Colorado Corrections chief Tom Clements lost his latest bid for parole on Tuesday morning. Homaidan al-Turki, serving an eight-years-to-life term for keeping his housekeeper a virtual slave in Colorado and sexually assaulting her, now must wait another two years before his next appearance […]

DENVER — A woman from Commerce City has been arrested after authorities accused her of providing the gun that was used to kill Colorado Department of Corrections Director Tom Clements. The Colorado Bureau of Investigations announced Wednesday night that Stevie Vigil, 22, was in custody. The CBI says she sold the gun to murder suspect […]

DENVER — Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has appointed Roger Werholtz, the former head of the Kansas Dept. of Corrections, to serve as a short-term replacement for Tom Clements, the slain former head of the Colorado Dept. of Corrections. Werholtz, who retired in 2010, will begin work on Monday, April 22 and serve through July or […]

DENVER — Two months after a former Colorado inmate killed two men and lead police on a nationwide manhunt, a sheriffs office in Texas is releasing new images of an attack between the suspect and police. The video clip above is graphic.I On Wednesday, the Montague County Sheriffs Office released dashboard camera video that shows a 27-year-old deputy […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A public service memorializing slain corrections head Tom Clements is set for this morning in Colorado Springs. The event is expected to attract hundreds of officials and state workers, including Gov. John Hickenlooper.  Clements, broadly considered a reformer within Colorado’s prison system, was killed Tuesday night when an assailant shot him […]

DENVER — The 9mm handgun Evan Ebel used to shoot a Texas police officer last week is the same weapon that killed Colorado Department of Corrections chief Tom Clements, ballistic analysts concluded Monday afternoon. The confirmation goes well beyond proving the same caliber and brand of ammunition used and all but guarantees the accuracy of […]

DENVER — The Colorado Department of Corrections will implement new measures designed to capture former prisoners who break their parole, the agency announced Wednesday. The new measures include monthly roundups of fugitives who break parole and a new rule requiring a two-hour response time for investigating all ankle bracelet tampering alerts. The Capitol’s Joint Budget […]