The Huerfano County Sheriff is among a group of people being sued for civil rights violations after what the family of an inmate says was a deadly encounter with detention officers.

Michael Burch walked into the Huerfano County jail. He never walked out. His death has now prompted a federal lawsuit.

The family of a 69-year-old man who died in a southern Colorado jail in 2023 is suing several Huerfano County officials, ...

HUERFANO COUNTY, Colo. — The family of a man who died at the Huerfano County Detention Center claimed in a lawsuit that he was tossed into a metal bench and then left to die in his cell from the ...

Deputies gave him 16 seconds of warning before shocking him with a Taser and tackling him inside a jail cell at the Huerfano County Detention Center in Walsenburg, breaking his ribs on a bench.

Jail officers taped black plastic over the ... The suit names the Huerfano Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Bruce Newman, the Huerfano County Commission, Pino, Vigil and one other deputy, the ...

The family of a man who died at the Huerfano County Detention Center claimed in a lawsuit that he was tossed into a metal bench and then left to die in his cell from the injuries he received as a ...

Michael Burch's 2023 death was ruled a homicide. Prosecutors declined to bring criminal charges against the deputy who used a Taser on Burch and wrestled with him in a Huerfano County jail cell. In ...

Prosecutors declined to bring criminal charges against the deputy who used a Taser on Burch and wrestled with him in a Huerfano County jail cell. In making the decision, District Attorney Henry ...