Colorado asks pharmacies for lethal injection drug
DENVER - Having executed just one prisoner in 45 years, the Colorado Department of Corrections is now searching for a source for the drugs needed to carry out the sentence for the state's longest...
View ArticleGov. orders flags lowered for corrections director
DENVER - Gov. John Hickenlooper has ordered flags lowered to half-staff at public buildings statewide in memory of Tom Clements, executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections who was...
View ArticleOhio prisons chief calls slain director 'caring'
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The slain head of the Colorado Department of Corrections was a caring and dedicated professional, Ohio's prisons chief said Wednesday as he recalled a friend he'd spoken to as recently...
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Colorado governor signs landmark gun bills
DENVER - Colorado's governor signed bills Wednesday that place new restrictions on firearms, signaling a change for Democrats who have traditionally shied away from gun control in a state with a...
View ArticleDeputies looking at murdered Colorado prison chief's bike...
MONUMENT, Colo. - Sheriff's deputies confirmed that they are investigating whether the person who shot and killed the head of Colorado's prisons may have been going to Tom Clements' home under the...
View ArticlePrison chief's death highlights safety concerns
BOISE, Idaho - The newest warden was sworn in Friday to oversee South Carolina's Lee Correctional Institution, a prison described by Gov. Nikki Haley as a dangerous place "housing the worst of the...
View ArticleLawmakers, governor take time off for memorial
DENVER - Gov. John Hickenlooper and Colorado lawmakers are taking time off Monday so they can attend a memorial service for Colorado Department of Corrections Chief Tom Clements.
View ArticlePrison investigator says senator threat a scam
HOUSTON - A death threat against a Texas lawmaker that was reported by a prison inmate turned out to be a scam, prison official said Tuesday.
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Troubled prison time for Colo suspect
DENVER - Behind bars, he was known as "Ebel Evil."
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AP IMPACT: Cartels dispatch agents deep inside US
CHICAGO - Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the U.S. border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the United States - an...
View ArticleColo. prison chief's wife choosing not to be angry
DENVER - The wife of Colorado's slain prisons chief says she could become enraged that a clerical error led to the early release of the parolee suspected in her husband's death, but she chooses not to...
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Gang member arrested in Colo. corrections killing
DENVER - A white supremacist prison gang member was arrested and another was still being sought for questioning Friday in the death of Colorado's prisons chief as authorities investigated whether the...
View ArticleSlain Colorado prison boss honored at Mo. memorial
COLUMBIA, Missouri - They came to honor Tom Clements as a loving father and husband, a committed public servant and faithful churchgoer, an avid bicyclist whose love of the Colorado mountains paved the...
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Gang member arrested in corrections killing probe
DENVER - A white supremacist prison gang member was arrested and another was still being sought for questioning Friday in the death of Colorado's prisons chief as authorities investigated whether the...
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Mood tense on 20th anniversary of Ohio prison riot
COLUMBUS, Ohio - It's been two decades this month since the longest deadly prison riot in U.S. history broke out in southern Ohio and there's trepidation in the air.
View ArticleDA seeks death penalty in slaying of prison worker
DENVER - An inmate accused in the 2002 slaying of a prison worker will be placed on trial and prosecutors will seek the death penalty after a judge Tuesday allowed the suspect to withdraw his guilty plea.
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Colo. ramps up efforts to track parolees
DENVER - Colorado prison officials said Wednesday they're ramping up efforts to monitor parolees and respond to problems with their electronic monitoring equipment following the slaying of the state's...
View ArticleLawsuit says Saudi mistreated after Clements death
DENVER - A Saudi national who was denied a request to serve out the remainder of a Colorado prison sentence in his home country is suing the state prison system, alleging mistreatment following last...
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Former Kan. prisons chief takes Colo. interim post
DENVER - A retired prisons chief from Kansas was named Tuesday as an interim replacement to slain Corrections Director Tom Clements.
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New law seeks clarity on Colo. prison sentences
DENVER - Colorado prison officials and the courts will need to clarify when multiple sentences are supposed to be served at the same time or one after the other, after an error led to the early release...
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