Tag: Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition
Colorado’s prison population is dropping, but not fast enough, advocates say...
Colorado's prison population has dropped to the lowest level since 2004, according to reports from the Colorado Department of Corrections.
As of April 30, the...
Leaving a halfway house can land you in prison. That could...
In 2010, Jenny Chestnut said she was found guilty of shoplifting and sentenced to serve three years in a halfway house in Greeley. After...
Nearly half of Colorado inmates are parole eligible but still behind...
Roughly 8,700 Colorado inmates — 43 percent of Colorado's entire 20,200-person prison population — are eligible for parole.
Yet they remain behind bars.
It's a situation...
Amid a growing opioid epidemic, lawmakers hope to end drug-addiction withdrawal...
On a warm spring day in 2015, Sarah Blair was stranded at a Safeway in Thornton with no car and a dead cell phone....
Lawmakers put the kibosh on leasing Huerfano prison, call for sentencing...
The Department of Corrections wants to reopen a shuttered prison in Walsenburg to house an expected rise in inmates next year, but lawmakers aren’t...
JeffCo DA candidates spar on race, mass incarceration and outside spending
Democrat Jake Lilly and Republican Pete Weir, candidates for District Attorney in Jefferson and Gilpin counties, sparred over issues like mass incarceration, implicit bias...
Effort helps eligible Colorado inmates vote from jail
Hundreds of thousands of Colorado voters are sending their mail-in ballots back to county clerks this week, and among them are several dozen jail inmates who successfully registered to vote this year.
The Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition recently launched a vigorous vote-from-jail campaign. And while some counties have been more receptive than others, in Denver alone the number of voting inmates quadrupled from 20 people in 2004 to 80 this year.