By Quentin Young | editor
“Because repeated requests and the county’s public health order have not produced the necessary information, we are taking this additional step to obtain the information needed to protect public health.”
— Jill Hunsaker Ryan, Colorado’s top public health official, on an ICE detention center in Aurora
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Aurora, operated by private prison firm GEO Group, is pictured on Jan. 30, 2025. (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline)
By Sara Wilson
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment issued a public health order on Thursday afternoon ordering The GEO Group to provide information about a recent tuberculosis case in an Aurora immigration detention center. It comes nearly two months after the Adams County Health Department issued an order on the same issue. GEO, the private company that operates the detention center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has not complied with that order.
Edward Nalwamba, a 78-year-old priest who has lived in Colorado for more than two decades, has become extremely ill after almost a year in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Aurora. (Photo courtesy of Joy Athanasiou)
By Lindsey Toomer
A 78-year-old priest who has been in immigration detention in Aurora for almost a year continues to present symptoms of respiratory illness with no improvement in his condition. Edward Nalwamba, a citizen of Uganda who has lived in Colorado for more than two decades, has been in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention since September. For months now, he has presented respiratory symptoms that a medical provider who reviewed his case said could be indications of tuberculosis.
Colorado state Rep. Mandy Lindsay, an Aurora Democrat, applauds on the floor of the Colorado House of Representatives on the final day of the 2026 legislative session on May 13, 2026, at the Colorado Capitol in Denver. (Photo by Lindsey Toomer/Colorado Newsline)
By Sara Wilson
A panel of Colorado state representatives began questioning witnesses Thursday in response to an ethics complaint against Democratic Rep. Mandy Lindsay, who is alleged to have mismanaged the internal Democratic House caucus fund. The bipartisan House Ethics Committee in May found probable cause in the complaint, allowing further investigation. House Speaker Julie McCluskie, a Dillon Democrat, told lawmakers that she thought the caucus account was “very poorly managed,” and was concerned with Lindsay’s persistent use of personal money for caucus expenses, her poor communication about the account’s low balance, and irregularities with her explanation of a $6,000 check.
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