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.

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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Department of Corrections Monthly Population - September

This report will show you that only 31 people have been released on the "accelerated release plan"
Department of Corrections

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

These stats show that the Governor's plan will be ignored by the Parole Board. The number of discrectionary paroles went up by a whooping 3 in September. DOC is also ignoring the legislature and keeping every single one of it's 6500 employees and quietly letting the state take on the burden of protecting it's citizens from felons in private prisones from Alaska and Arizona.mpc

Unknown said...

This was more propoganda than anything in the first place. These are people who were already eligible for parole and should have been released prior to this. They are not letting anyone go who should not have already been released.

Anonymous said...

All of us at FVFI are really ticked off at all who are responsible for these stats which tell us, the governor's plan isnt being followed but ignored.
We also realize and demand that in addition to getting the early release program going that DOC, (ZAVARAS) needs to also start laying off an appropriate number of employee's. Its time to start listening to your leader, Governor Ritter whom we all support his decision for early release for, (NON VIOLENT OFFENDERS). DJW