DENVER — Disability Law Colorado spent three years documenting a list of concerns at Southern Peaks Regional Treatment Center in Cañon City, and has now made those "dangerous conditions" public.

The report includes years of monitoring visits, interviews with nearly 50 kids and input from families and staff, according to a press release.

"We went back again that year to see how things were going, and initially issued an internal report with some recommendations, and have been having conversations with them to try to improve the conditions there," Co-Legal Director at Disability Law Colorado Emily Harvey said. "It just at this point feels like a cycle that's unbreakable in the facility with making improvements, and then things really backsliding."

"I think the biggest concern that we had,

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