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Voices For Justice

 

We are writing today in regards to the CCJRC annual fundraiser.

This year our event will be held on Thursday September 20, 2012 at the Mile-High Station

  Your support of our event will help CCJRC to continue to be at the forefront of criminal justice reform in Colorado. 

Early bird tickets are available for now only $50 each.

 

There are also several levels of sponsorship available. If you have any questions about what it means to be a sponsor, I am available at pam@ccjrc.org or (303) 825-0122. CCJRC is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization and donations are tax-deductible.

 

CCJRC invites our friends and supporters for our fourth annual night of fun and fundraising. 

VOICES FOR JUSTICE
Thursday September 20th 5 - 9:30 p.m.

CLICK HERE FOR EARLY BIRD TICKETS!
THEY ARE ONLY $50 UNTIL JULY 20

BUY TICKETS EARLY

*AFTER JULY 20-TICKETS ARE $75

New Venue
Mile High Station
2027 W. Colfax Ave.
Denver, CO 80204

New Caterer
Biscuits & Berries

New Voices
VOICES FOR JUSTICE

New Award
Rupert-Tate Game Changer Award

DINNER and OPEN BAR
SILENT & LIVE AUCTION

 

COLORADO CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM COALITION

Fact Sheet                             

 

CCJRC has been successfully advocating for sensible criminal justice reform in Colorado for over a decade.

We were founded in 1999 when Senator Dorothy Rupert, in alliance with Senator Penfield Tate, introduced legislation calling for a three-year halt on prison expansion and the creation of a task force on sentencing reform. Although this legislation did not pass, it served as a catalyst for uniting a diverse group interested in working on state level criminal justice policy reform. Today CCJRC includes over 100 diverse organizations and faith communities and over 7,000 individual members statewide.

We have worked diligently over the years to develop criminal justice policies and grassroots campaigns that effectively promote public safety and rehabilitation without relying on further prison expansion. CCJRC believes that continued growth of the prison population is neither sustainable nor inevitable.

Facts

• The Colorado prison population ballooned from under 4,000 people to over 23,000 people between 1985 and 2007 due to the “war on drugs” and the “get tough on crime” philosophy
• The annual state prison budget has grown from under $70 million to over $800 million today
• Since 1990 Colorado has spent over $800 million dollars building 12 state prisons and at one point contracted with 7 private prisonsNearly 25% of people in prison are there because of a drug offense (mostly possession), and 80% of the people in prison have a drug or alcohol abuse problem
• Approximately 65% of offenders will be returned to prison within three years, most of them for a technical violation of parole

CCJRC continues to develop and pass drug policy reform legislation that promotes recovery and prevention.  In addition, we have supported parole/re-entry reform that impacts the revolving door to prison and addresses the collateral consequences of conviction.

Successes

• Twenty four criminal justice reform bills that CCJRC was involved with were signed into law in the last three years
• 22.5 Million Dollars will be reinvested from the Department of Corrections budget into treatment and support services for people in the criminal justice system in Colorado because of legislative changes in the past four years.
• Four prisons have been closed in Colorado in the last three years, with a fifth, CSP II, to close in 2013!
• Named by GuideStar as one of the top high-impact nonprofits working in state criminal justice reform
• Revising and expanding the 3^rd edition of our Re-Entry Guide for release this summer
• Co-hosted Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, to help raise awareness of the deep impact of collateral consequences, particularly in the minority community