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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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Saturday, May 31, 2008

California - Reduce Prison Population By 40,000

SAN FRANCISCO—A federal court referee is recommending that California's prison population be cut by nearly 40,000 inmates over the next four years.

There is little agreement over how to accomplish that, leading a special judicial panel on Friday to grant more time for settlement talks.

The three-judge panel says it will set a trial in November if the state, inmate advocacy groups, law enforcement organizations and others fail to agree on ways to solve prison crowding. They have 30 days to reach a settlement.

The federal courts could order an immediate release of inmates or cap the prison population, actions the Schwarzenegger administration and others want to avoid.

The court-appointed referee who is trying to negotiate a settlement says the state's 170,000 inmates should be reduced to about 132,000 by the end of 2011.

Referee Elwood Lui is proposing the population be trimmed by diverting parole violators and some convicts serving short sentences into community treatment or alternative-punishment programs.

Attorneys for the state, counties and local law enforcement say they are not yet ready to accept his proposed settlement. Republican lawmakers also have raised objections.


The Mercury News

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Colorado needs to release all there non violent offenders, then send all there illegal aliens as they call them home. Be plenty of jobs for the inmates being released. I would rather hire a non violent inmate than an ILLEGAL who cant speak english, care nothing about our flag, only wants handouts from the government.
Most all inmates given a chance would welcome a decent paying job, rather than being hasseled by a corrections officer to pea in a bottle so he can send him back to prison because he smoked pot or drank a cold beer.
Republican lawmakers who object need to look up the meaning of, Jurisprudence!!!!DJW

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