Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2005-06-04
Description: Panel 1-2. The 2005 class graduated at the Air Force Academy and the 2nd Brigade Combat Team returned to Fort Carson. Hats off to both groups. Panel 3. Two months after opening the new jail, it...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1983-11-13
Description: Panel 1. Library statue (clothed with shorts) holds a ballot box (with a yes vote) in the snow. Panel 2. El Paso County Commissioner, Terry Harris, wants to flip a $50,000 coin to see if he shou...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1983-12-10
Description: Panel 1. Its Manitou Winterfest time. Panel 2. Colorado Springs city Councilman, Dave Sarton, is facing a recall vote. It did not go well for the opposition. Sarton was armed with facts. Pane...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1983-11-02
Description: El Paso County Commissioners get jail recommendations and now have to make a decision...do they ask voters for money to build a new jail or do they make a contract to rent a jail? Prisoners are s...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1983-11-05
Description: Which costume is scariest? Panel 1. County Commission jockey outfit. (Gambling issue) 2. Human nut against rabbit exploitation. (Animal abuse?) Panel 3. County jail sardine can. (Prison overcr...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1983-09-24
Description: Panel 1. Early freeze. There's a skater on the swimming pool. Panel 2. Pikes Peak Highway advisor committee can't get the math right on the traffic light issue. Panel 3. Test on which is better...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1983-08-18
Description: Colorado prisons have been overcrowded for many years. State legislators make temporary fixes but they fall short of solving the problem. The prison game is illustrated here. Prisoners riot be...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1983-08-27
Description: One panel, many ideas. The always crowded Woodman Road has competition this week. El Paso County is looking into renting jails. Could Colorado Springs rent pipe lines (for water)? There was a $1 ...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1983-05-28
Description: Panel 1. Bees see winter finally graduate to spring. Panel 2. El Paso County Sheriff, Red Davis dies. Panel 3. Colorado lottery watches man scratch tickets so he can pay child support. Panel 4...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1983-01-22
Description: Panel 1. We start the year with another homicide. Panel 2. Movie star, E.T. could phone home...to judge's home...instead of spending the weekend in crowded jail. Panel 3. Overworked Public defe...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1983-01-24
Description: Overcrowded prisons are dangerous. The bars that hold prisoners in are actually TNT sticks with fuses burning.
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1987-07-27
Description: Panel 1. Two boys in one prison cell will, hopefully, be reformed. Panel 2. Numerous guys in a single prison cell would likely cause some prisoners to be deformed. They will learn new ways to...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1986-11-22
Description: Panel 1. I forgot what this was about. Manitou must have had a plane incident. Panel 2. The county prison is way overcrowded. Panel 3-5. El Paso County Commissioners are making a water plan...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1986-09-18
Description: Panel 1. In the old days, when we had capital punishment, overcrowded prisons were not a problem. Murderes, horse thieves, etc. were hung. Panel 2. Nowadays capital punishment is almost unhea...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2002-11-09
Description: Panel 1. Ed Jones is elected to the State Senate. He used to frequent a wild bar called Leonards. Lobbyists are anxious to show him a good time in Denver. Panel 2. Colorado voters threw out the...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2002-10-05
Description: Panel 1. Math teacher asks Bobby "If you have 15 C-130s flying home and each one has 17 reservists aboard, what do you have?" Answer. "A tremendous feeling of gratitude." Panel 2-3. County Com...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2002-10-01
Description: Panel 1. County officials observe the dangerously overcrowded jail. They wonder who they should allow for early release. Someone appears to be desperate to get out of there. Panel 2. It turns ...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2002-09-14
Description: Panel 1. Mudslides often happen after forest fires and elections. (The Senator Allard vs Strickland mudslide is a good example) Panel 2. Buzzards (lawyers) are gathering at the county jail. We...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2002-08-24
Description: Panel 1. After a very hot summer, D-11 school officials want children to keep off the dirt. There's no grass around. Panel 2-5. Sen Allard and challenger Stricklan debate. Allard nails Strickla...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2002-07-27
Description: Panel 1. Kayakers in Pueblo are plugging the water that should be flowing to Colorado Springs. Panel 2. The U.S. forest service seems to prefer to call in smoke jumpers from California to put ou...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1990-04-07
Description: Panel 1. Patriotic flute guy is marching alone. The other guys are watching the final four on TV. Panel 2. Buie Sewell rides in on rabbit (name recognition) to find Heath and Lucero sitting on ...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1990-03-05
Description: Panel 1. Man reading paper that says, The ACLU says prisoners are suffering from overcrowded conditions, are not receiving proper counseling... Panel 2. Man is a soldier, reading in an overcrowd...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2011-05-24
Description: The bullets of California. Panel 1. President Obama's transportation secretary, Ray LaHood, passes out $300 billion tax dollars to help fund big spender state, California with it's bullet train....
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1980-09-11
Description: Top view of County Jail and Judicial building. Prisoners are sleeping like sardines on the floor in El Paso County Jail, while legal spaghetti slows down procedures in the courthouse.
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1982-08-25
Description: The difference between an old-time prisoner and a modern day prisoner: Panel 1. Old-time prisoners wore outfits where the stripes were horizontal. Panel 2. Modern day prisoners, because the jail...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1982-04-22
Description: Instead of fixing a leaky roof, Uncle Sam buys more pots and pans to hold prisoners. Our courts and family structures are broken and need major repair.
2024 author commentary: Crime is up aga...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2007-03-03
Description: Panel 1. El Paso County Sheriff's office wants to house prisoners in tents. Our soldiers, living in tents, find that humiliating. Panel 2. The Colorado House passed a science-based sex educatio...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2007-02-06
Description: Panel 1-6. Two scenarios on how to solve the overcrowding problem in our jails due to returning repeat offenders. Judge can sentence a repeat offender to free-room and board in the safety of a ...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1978-05-26
Description: Just in the nick of time, the state legislature foiled a big prisoner escape plan designed to deal with the overcrowding issue.
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1995-04-22
Description: Panel 1. Prisoners get jail cells measuring 7'x10'...which is a lot less crowded than people working in the 4th Judicial District get. Panel 2. New Airport trends. Logo of airline (I forget w...