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.


Monday, May 25, 2009

Arming the Courts With Research

The Pew Center On The States

For many years, conventional wisdom has been that “nothing works” to change offender behavior—that once an offender has turned to crime little can be done to help turn his or her life around. Today, however, there is a voluminous body of solid research showing that certain “evidence-based” sentencing and corrections practices do work and can reduce crime rates as effectively as prisons at much lower cost.

This policy brief outlines 10 strategies for evidence-based sentencing that would allow states to reduce their crime rates while conserving state resources to meet other important needs.  The brief is adapted from a longer paper by Roger Warren, president emeritus of the National Center for State Courts, that was originally published in a special 2007 issue of the Indiana Law Journal.

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May 05, 2009 - 
Evidence-Based Sentencing Brief (Adobe PDF)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is exactly what Colorado should have been doing a long time ago. What is it going to take to change our arrogant legislators minds about crime and punishment??? Many, many offenders including my husband would have benefited from this a long time ago had Colorado (Denver) not been in total punishment mode. There are programs that work and Colorado better start to change...we don't have the money for this any more.

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