The Colorado Department of Corrections is "not currently seeking any transfer" of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters to federal custody despite efforts from the U.S. Department of Justice and President Donald Trump to have Peters moved.

Last week, the DOJ made a formal request to have Peters transferred from the La Vista Correctional Facility in Pueblo, where she is serving an eight year, nine month sentence, into federal custody.

“Requests to transfer inmates from the Colorado Department of Corrections emanate from the state, and not from other entities. The Department is not currently seeking any transfer,” a CDOC spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday.

There is a process for transferring inmates from state custody to federal custody, according to the CDOC, but it is typically res

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