The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether Colorado prisons are violating the constitutional rights of the state’s adult inmates and youth detainees through excessive force, inadequate medical care and nutrition, and policies surrounding the housing of transgender offenders, the federal agency announced Monday.

The Trump administration’s probe will examine “policies and practices” within the Colorado Department of Corrections and Division of Youth Services “to ensure that DOC inmates and youths in the custody of DYS are being afforded their rights under the U.S. Constitution and federal law,” the Justice Department said in a news release.

“The Constitution protects every American, whether they are a young person confined in a juvenile facility or an elderly person confined t

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