Colorado lawmakers including Sen. James Coleman and Rep. Jennifer Bacon on Wednesday unveiled a bill that would have History Colorado study racial equity issues facing Black residents.
Colorado lawmakers including Sen. James Coleman and Rep. Jennifer Bacon on Wednesday unveiled a bill that would have History Colorado study racial equity issues facing Black residents.
The Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility is a state prison in Ordway, Colorado.
In the weeks since being diagnosed with COVID-19 in prison, 55-year-old John Peckham said he has been moved around to several housing units sometimes in the middle of the night where he said sick inmates and healthy inmates had to share toilets.
That’s one of many troublesome things he’s experienced as the pandemic has tightened its grip on state prisons in recent months. He’s been given sack lunches with portions, he described as in line with what a “preschooler” would eat, not a grown man.
Courtesy of Springs Rescue Mission
Springs Rescue Mission is one organization providing shelter and resources for people experiencing homelessness in El Paso County.
A group of ten nonprofits and charities is calling on Gov. Jared Polis to rush vaccines to homeless shelters and service providers and restore their priority status in Colorado s vaccine distribution plan. We know that this virus thrives in congregate settings, and shelters are one of the bigger congregate settings, with people coming and going, said Cathy Alderman, chief communications and policy officer for the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. If the virus begins to spread, it s going to spread quickly to a lot of people.