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| Colorado Dept. Of Corrections Settles Class-Action Suit Over Outdoor Exercise |
| By kunc.org- Kareem Maddox |
| Published: 07/18/2016 |
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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 made in a class-action lawsuit [.pdf] against the Colorado Department of Corrections. The case has been settled and the Department of Corrections will build three new recreation yards at the Cañon City prison by the end of 2016. The suit stemmed the case of inmate Troy Anderson, who was in long term administrative segregation at CSP. Colorado's position was that the provided exercise room, which had an open barred window, constituted outdoor exercise access. The 2012 decision disagreed, saying that denying Anderson outdoor exercise violated the Eight Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. "So we thought, now they're finally going to build exercise yards at the Colorado State Penitentiary... They did not," said Amy Robertson, the co-executive director of the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center. "They took Mr. Anderson and moved him to Sterling Correctional Facility." Read More. |
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