{"id":13848,"date":"2026-01-21T18:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/tina-peters-involved-in-prison-altercation-department-of-corrections-says\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:32:13","slug":"tina-peters-involved-in-prison-altercation-department-of-corrections-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/tina-peters-involved-in-prison-altercation-department-of-corrections-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Tina Peters involved in prison altercation, Department of Corrections says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ef5418a8-6ba7-573c-abe1-fc5062b9780e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1080\" height=\"719\" alt=\"A screenshot of an incident involving former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters in the La Vista Correctional Facility in Pueblo on Jan. 18. (Screenshot\/Colorado Department of Corrections)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A screenshot of an incident involving former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters in the La Vista Correctional Facility in Pueblo on Jan. 18. (Screenshot\/Colorado Department of Corrections)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was involved in an altercation with another incarcerated person over the weekend at the La Vista Correctional Facility, a state prison for female inmates, in Pueblo.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the Colorado Department of Corrections, the incident occurred Jan. 18,  and did not result in any injuries. Peters is currently serving a nine-year sentence for election fraud at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>In surveillance video footage obtained by CPR News, Peters is seen grabbing another inmate\u2019s neck in a scuffle. The video shows Peters dragging a cart across the room toward a closet. Another inmate walks toward the closet and appears to begin to move the cart away from the closet door when Peters emerges from the closet and grabs the inmate by her neck and pushes her. The two appear to exchange words before Peters lets her go and leaves the room.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lWbnhxDvujw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Peter Ticktin, Peters\u2019 attorney, said in an interview Tuesday that Peters was attacked by the other inmate as Peters was moving a water cart, and that the video that captured the altercation is unclear. He insisted the other inmate struck Peters first.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ticktin, the other inmate said to Peters, \u201cLet me go in there first,\u201d before striking her. Peters allegedly responded with \u201cI\u2019ll just be a minute,\u201d Ticktin said. Ticktin said those were the only words the two women exchanged.<\/p>\n<p>Ticktin said that Peters was later told that Peters herself was going to be charged with felony assault.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if she will face any charges; a message left with 10th District Attorney Kala Beauvais was not immediately returned.<\/p>\n<p>The corrections department says it is conducting an \u201cadministrative investigation\u201d following the incident. And as part of standard safety procedures, Peters was moved to a different housing area after the altercation. Corrections officials emphasized Peters was not placed in solitary confinement, noting that La Vista Correctional Facility does not utilize solitary confinement. Moving inmates involved in incidents while an investigation is underway is routine practice, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>No additional details about the cause of the altercation were released.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/\" id=\"link-b217442c47df9abbba53bc7ea7f83e58\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em id=\"emphasis-058a3b77957804c82d9457b6d178cc1c\">To read more stories from Colorado Public Radio, visit www.cpr.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>election appears to grab another inmate by the neck and shove her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,994],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-13848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-trueanthem"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13848"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19457,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848\/revisions\/19457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13848"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=13848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}