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Colorado’s Private Prisons, Fate For Conundrum Hot Springs, Paralympian Going For Triple Gold

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Privately run prisons have been deemed less safe then ones run by the federal government, so the Department of Justice is phasing them out. But Colorado will keep its private prisons open. CPR's Andrea Dukakis explains why. A trip to Colorado's Conundrum Hot Springs is on the bucket list for many, but the area is suffering for it. Paralympian Alana Nichols wants her team to get the same fanfare as Olympians got in Rio. She could become the first female athlete, Paralympic or Olympic, to win gold in three different sports. And a trip to singer-songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov's Boulder County farm.