Inside the Aurora ICE detention center, state bus service on edge, police oversight future, poetry showdown
Immigrants say they’ve endured extreme conditions at the GEO detention center in Aurora.
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Show Notes
A new report raises concerns about conditions inside Colorado’s largest immigrant detention center in Aurora. Then, a long-distance bus network across the state is seeing explosive growth, but the popular service is also running out of money. Plus, a citizen police oversight commission created after the Black Lives Matter protests is now asking to be disbanded. And we take you to one of Colorado’s fiercest competitions this year…. A high school student's battle for the state poetry title.
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Read more on the stories in today’s show:
- Denverite’s Kyle Harris on conditions in the Aurora ICE detention center.
This episode of Colorado Today is hosted by Arlo Pérez Esquivel and Bazi Kanani. It’s edited and produced by Mateo Schimpf, Madilyn Rose, Megan Verlee and Tyler Bender. The executive producer is Megan Verlee. Theme music by Pedro Lumbraño.