State Representative Morgan Carroll, already known for having an active blog of her own, has taken her concerns about Colorado’s out of control prison budget and its causes to the blogosphere with a lengthy post on the subject…
It is widely know that young black males today are more likely to end up in prison than in college. Cindy Rodriguez at the Denver Post calls it the “Jailhouse track”. When kids drop out of high school they put…
Colorado has, in recent times, followed an expensive policy of building more prisons, rather than trying to address the root causes of crime that would prevent it from happening in the first place.
The result can be preditable…
About 47.2% of people newly sent to prison each year in Colorado have a severe or moderately severe substance abuse problem. Another 35.1% have a moderate substance abuse problem. Only 9.4% have no substance abuse problem. Female inmates are…
One of Colorado’s fastest growing budget line items is the corrections budget. In the most recent fiscal year, 12.5% of the general fund state budget in Colorado went to corrections, up from 9.8% ten years ago.
This is…
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