9NEWS (Denver): Colorado prison officials have transferred scores of killers and rapists to other states and refused to tell victims and their families where they are — despite a constitutional amendment and state law that are supposed to guarantee those answers, a 9Wants to Know investigation found.

Instead, state Department of Corrections officials and Gov. John Hickenlooper have repeatedly refused to disclose the whereabouts of inmates despite the language of the Victim Rights Act, passed by Colorado voters in 1992 and codified into state law the next year.

“Upon written request of a victim, the department of corrections or the public or private local corrections authorities shall notify the victim of the following information regarding any person who was charged with or convicted of a crime against the victim:

(a) The institution in which such person is incarcerated or otherwise being held;”

The result: more than 100 Colorado inmates — including some of the state’s most notorious killers — are being held in what is essentially now a secret prison system.

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