Who is the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition?

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.

If you would like to be involved please go to our website and become a member.


Thursday, February 07, 2008

Legislator Wants To Expand State Prisons

DENVER - Colorado should begin serious talks about expanding some of its state-owned prisons, the head of the Legislature's Joint Budget Committee said Tuesday.

Rep. Bernie Buescher, D-Grand Junction, is upset that private prison companies operating in the state incarcerate about 20 percent of all state inmates. He says with one company running four of the five private prisons here, they have too great a negotiating position and can dictate terms to the Legislature.

One such company, Nashville, Tenn.-based Corrections Corporation of America, is requesting a 5 percent hike in the per diem rate the state pays it or it will bar Colorado inmates from being housed in one of its facilities.

Because of that, and years of emphasis on private prisons under former GOP Gov. Bill Owens in general, Buescher advised the Legislature's Capital Development Committee to give serious thought to funding some expansion proposals for state facilities that previously were rated low on its priority list.

And that includes Trinidad Correctional Facilities and a slew of others in Southern Colorado.

"This would force the state of Colorado to accelerate the construction of prison capacity," Buescher told the six-member CDC, which prioritizes construction projects for the Legislature. "On your list laid out as No. 61 (Trinidad), that could be a project that we have to accelerate in order to deal with this problem."


The Pueblo Chieftain

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This representative, in a public meeting, asked the DOC why they told him one week they have 542 people on waiting lists, when the next week they said they were returning money because of the under budgeting of that same system. The DOC is totally mis-managed and cannot be trusted with it's own statistics and performance. Private prisons are not the answer. Private, for profit community centers are NOT the solution. Raise the expectations of the DOC to perform for what they are paid to do.

Anonymous said...

i thought the state was going to look at helping people not come back,well if you believe that i have some ocean front property for sale in arizona for you to buy...it wont change until US the citizens of colorado do something about this joke of a correctional system we have.until then its expansion as usual....
charlie

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