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Tina Peters released from Colorado prison, DOC confirms - Colorado Springs Gazette.Tina Peters released from Colorado prison, DOC confirms PUEBLO — Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was released from a Colorado prison Monday.The Colorado Department of Corrections confirmed shortly after 8 a.m.that Peters, whose sentence was commuted by Gov.Jared Polis, was processed for release from the DOC’s La Visa Correctional Facility.Officials said they will not provide additional details.Here is the official statement from the DOC: “The Colorado Department of Corrections can confirm that Tina Peters was processed from custody today, June 1, 2026.The CDOC will not provide additional details regarding residential placement, reporting schedules, or travel logistics.The CDOC does not coordinate media access or press conferences for individuals on parole; any requests for interviews or personal comments should be directed to Ms.Peters or her legal representatives.” A handful of Tina Peters supporters, holding a sign that read, “Jena Griswold stole your vote,” cheered when they heard the news of her release, ignoring shouted insults from passersby.“It’s a happy, happy day,” said Peters supporter Scott Russell.“Tina never should have gone to prison in the first place.” Polis on May 15 cut Peters’ nearly nine-year prison sentence in half, which made her eligible for release from prison on June 1.The state Democratic Party’s central committee voted days later by an overwhelming margin to censure Polis and bar him from speaking at party events in response to the governor’s grant of clemency to Peters.A spokesman for Polis, Eric Maruyama, said in a statement after the Democrats voted that Polis “made this decision based on the facts of the case and what he believed was the right thing to do.“Sometimes the right thing isn’t the popular thing with everybody.Democracy is strongest when disagreement is met with debate and dialogue, not censorship.” Peters, a 70-year-old Grand Junction Republican and the former elected county clerk in Mesa County, was convicted by a jury in 2024 on seven charges, including four felonies, for orchestrating a plan to allow unauthorized access to her county’s election equipment in a failed attempt to find evidence that Colorado’s voting system is rigged.In his clemency statement, Polis said he agreed with a recent appeals court ruling that found Peters had been handed an “extremely unusual and lengthy” sentence because of her stated beliefs about election integrity.