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Our mission is to reverse the trend of mass incarceration in Colorado. We are a coalition of nearly 7,000 individual members and over 100 faith and community organizations who have united to stop perpetual prison expansion in Colorado through policy and sentence reform.

Our chief areas of interest include drug policy reform, women in prison, racial injustice, the impact of incarceration on children and families, the problems associated with re-entry and stopping the practice of using private prisons in our state.

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Thursday, October 04, 2007

Wyoming Will Honor Prisoner Confidentiality

By The Associated Press

CHEYENNE - The Wyoming Department of Corrections has agreed that investigators and staff at state prisons will respect the confidentiality of communications between inmates and their lawyers.
The corrections department adopted a new policy this week in response to a lawsuit filed by a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union.
Lawyer Stephen Pevar sued the state in federal court this summer claiming that a lieutenant at the Rawlins prison had interrogated an inmate about what Pevar had told him.
Pevar and the state filed a proposed settlement of the lawsuit this week with U.S. District Judge Clarence Brimmer in Cheyenne.
The settlement includes a new state policy that prohibits investigators from interrogating prisoners regarding their attorney-client communications.
Steve Lindly is deputy director of the corrections department.
He says that the department has never supported violating the attorney-client privilege. He says the new policy will make the department's position clearer.
Wyoming Sun