Attorney Says Tina Peters Has Been Attacked Multiple Times in Prison
Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters has allegedly been assaulted several times while serving her sentence in a Colorado state prison, according to a statement from her attorney, Peter Ticktin.
Ticktin said in a letter sent Saturday to former President Donald Trump that Peters was first threatened about six months ago, when a group of inmates allegedly vowed to stab and kill her. The incident was reported to the FBI and Department of Justice, who interviewed Peters before she was moved to a different housing unit.
“In the new unit, she was attacked by other prisoners three times in different locations where guards had to pull inmates off of her,” Ticktin wrote.
Trump has recently pressured Colorado Gov. Jared Polis to release Peters, criticizing the governor on social media earlier this month after Polis declined to intervene. “FREE TINA!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Peters, convicted in 2024 of election tampering and misconduct, was found to have used a stolen security badge to help an unauthorized man access Mesa County’s voting systems in 2021 as part of efforts to support unfounded claims about the 2020 election. She is serving a nine-year state prison sentence.
Last month, Colorado’s Department of Corrections rejected a Federal Bureau of Prisons request to transfer Peters into federal custody, saying the state had no reason to initiate such a move.
