Colorado Department of Corrections

Colorado is one of the first states to employ an incarcerated professor. David Carillo has been released after being granted clemency – and today on In The NoCo, we hear about why he still plans to continue educating students who are behind prison walls.

Advocates are sounding the alarm about staffing shortages in Colorado prisons. In a recent survey of 400 incarcerated Coloradans, the vast majority said those shortages have had serious consequences. We learn more today on In The NoCo.

A soon-to-be finalized legal settlement would offer transgender women in Colorado prisons new housing options, including a pipeline to the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility. The change comes amid a growing number of lawsuits across the country aimed at improving health care access and safety for incarcerated trans people.

Colorado is one of the first states to employ an incarcerated professor. Today on In The NoCo, we learn why this move could be so impactful.

Incarcerated individuals in Colorado have numerous creative opportunities, including arts education. Over the past several years, inmates have produced plays, written poems and made music together. Their newest creative project sounds a bit different.

Corrections officers were among the second group to get early access to coronavirus vaccines late last year. Experts are mixed on how well monetary vaccine incentives actually work. In the two months since CDOC’s bonus was introduced, vaccinations for staff who regularly work in the correctional facilities only increased about 15%, remaining just over half in total.

Correctional staff have been able to get a COVID-19 vaccine since January, but less than half of the more than 6,000 workers have gotten one dose of the vaccine so far. As vaccination opens up to everyone in the general public, including all incarcerated people, the department is offering staff a $500 incentive to get vaccinated.

As the coronavirus continues to spread across the state, a rural corner of northeastern Colorado has become home to the highest rate of cases of any…

When you open a window in your home, do you consider yourself outside? Probably not. That was the argument that inmates at Colorado State Penitentiary…

Whole Foods has sourced goat cheese and tilapia from farms that employ inmates through Colorado Correctional Industries. Critics say it's exploitative because the inmates are paid so little.