The Denver Post examines why hundreds of Coloradans cycle through the state courts' competency process over and over again, caught in the failures of the criminal justice and mental health systems.
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Colorado's patchwork system of jails will soon have a baseline set of standards guiding how they operate, but the state's Jail Standards Commission has struggled to figure out oversight.
For the first time in state history, Colorado's patchwork system of jails will soon have a baseline set of standards guiding how they feed, house, restrain and care for inmates. But how to ensure jails comply with the rules has been a harder question to settle.