Sunday, May 19, 2013
- Issue Archive for
- Jan 13-19, 2005
- Vol. 13, No. 2
- Maxed out
News
Maxed Out
Shipping inmates to private prisons is Colorados cheap solution to overcrowding. But so far its cost plenty.
Gold Camp or bust
Forest Service expects to reopen road to motor vehicles
Singing the blues
Shift at 32 Bleu will challenge local music scene
Say cheese
Man gets three years for handing out sandwiches
Columns
-
Kenneth Cleaver
Consumer Correspondent
Flesh and bloodletting
Welcome to the alter-universe, where Republicans are turning cannibal and where Doublespeak is the official language of the land.
-
Outsider
Recycled illusions
-
As the Village Turns
Let the fun begin
-
Letters
Readers of the Independent talk back to the editor
A rock and a hard place
It costs $69 a day to house inmates in Colorado's prisons and jails, which has given rise to an increasing trend toward turning the system over to private companies. However, studies indicate that per-prisoner costs at private jails are really not much lower -- but the toll on prisoners who are sent out-of-state is great indeed (see cover story beginning on page 15).
-
Personal Space
Beetle juice
-
Domestic Bliss
Above the knee
-
Web Extra
13 Republicans who face ousting and Letter from Carolyn Myers
Food & Drink
Oh so good
Osso buco recipe makes for warm, healthy meal
Music
-
Playing Around
The word is still out about jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan.
Kickin' poems and taking names
Def Poetry Jam comes to Denver
Film
Requiem for Rwanda
A review of *Hotel Rwanda (R)
-
Opening This Week
What's new on Colorado Springsarea screens
-
Movie Picks
Our reviewers' recommendations for films showing on Colorado Springs area screens.
-
Movie Times
What's playing, where, and when, on the silver screen in Colorado Springs.
Stage
We all scream...
Apocalyptic coolness abounds in The Ice Cream Social Disease
The family table
The Rep presents A.R. Gurneys The Dining Room
Calendar
Ten Days to Live
What's happenin' this week in the big city highlights from our listings
Rites of passage
Penrose Library hosts Guatemalan photo exhibit
Colorado honors Martin Luther King Jr.
Two events commemorat King's birth and his work.
