Allison Sherry is reporter for CPR News covering immigration and criminal justice. Allison joined Colorado Public Radio after reporting in Washington D.C. for the Denver Post and Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science, Colorado State University
Professional background:
Allison joined Colorado Public Radio in 2017 to bring focus to CPR News’ coverage of local, state and federal government. She now covers justice and immigration. Rather than a daily crime beat, Allison focuses on problems in the criminal justice system and trying to tell stories from the ground — the jailhouse, the police car, the courtroom — about what is happening in Colorado from places most people don’t go.
Allison brings over 17 years of journalism experience to the newsroom and a familiarity with Colorado politics. She began her career as a health care reporter with the Denver Post and later transitioned to cover education and poverty before taking on their political beat full-time. She moved to Washington, D.C. in 2010 to serve as the Post’s bureau chief before taking a similar job at the Minneapolis Star Tribune in 2014, where she covered Congress and the White House.
Awards:
Allison has received a wide range of awards throughout her career as a journalist, including the Washington Press Club Foundation’s David Lynch Regional Reporting award on coverage of Congress. She was also a part of the team that received the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News at the Denver Post for coverage of the Aurora theater shooting in 2012.
The state's top federal prosecutor and the local head of the FBI say they are monitoring movements and plans by Coloradans who may want to cause bodily harm and property destruction.
The ACLU of Colorado filed the suit, hoping the court would order Gov. Polis to exercise his executive authority and reduce the coronavirus risk in Colorado's prisons. But a judge rejected that argument.
Advocates want Polis to let more people out, and speed up vaccinations for those who remain, to slow the spread of COVID-19 through Colorado's prisons.
The report, which includes priests not identified in past investigations, aims to provide a complete and accurate reckoning of clergy sexual abuse in the state since 1950.
CPR News has found that jails across Colorado have varying policies on both supplying masks and requiring inmates to wear them throughout their jail stays.
The state will have to supply every prisoner with two free masks and two bars of soap a week. It also requires the Department of Corrections to identify vulnerable inmates and provide them with safe housing.
The charges stem from a post-election protest on November 4th. 23-year-old Logan Scott Debyle was also cited by Denver Police that evening for alleged firework possession and disobeying a lawful order.
Christopher Linsmayer allegedly started several small fires on his property in Kremmling between Oct. 25 and 27, when the East Troublesome Fire was burning nearby.
The threat of Election Day, or post-Election Day, chaos is dominating the energy of the FBI and local law enforcement agencies, as police chiefs and sheriffs plan for protest activity up and down the Front Range.
Deputies who responded to reports of fires on the property found a dozen smoldering slash piles. The area is under a burn ban and is located near the devastating East Troublesome fire.