5 Home for the homeless.

• Position: STATELINE - Brief article

A shuttered prison in rural southeastern Colorado will become a substance-abuse treatment center and shelter for the urban homeless under a bill that recently won approval. Governor John Hickenlooper (D) pushed for the plan, which has a first-year budget of $2.78 million and will target a population the governor told the Denver Post is "the hardest to turn around." The proposal to repurpose the historic Fort Lyon facility will create some 50...