Three inmates in Colorado facing the death penalty were moved recently from a prison in Sterling to Cañon City, a corrections official said Monday.
Nathan Dunlap, Sir Mario Owens and Robert Ray are now being housed in the Colorado State Penitentiary, said Adrienne Jacobson, a Colorado Department of Corrections spokeswoman.
The three were housed in the Sterling Correctional Facility for about the past four years, and the move back to Cañon City brings them full circle.
The three were moved to Sterling because of a lack of outdoor access, Jacobson said. That issue has been resolved and they are now back at the state penitentiary.
All three are housed in “management controlled units,” among a group of five other inmates. The death sentence inmates typically are out of their cells for about four hours daily.
The recent moves, within the past two weeks, back to Cañon City were without incident.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822, knicholson@denverpost.com or @kierannicholson
