Monday, January 19, 2009

National Gang Task Force Moving To Denver

Rocky Mountain News

 — A national gang task force is moving its headquarters to Pueblo.

The National Major Gang Task Force will be in Pueblo starting Feb. 1. It is now based in Indianapolis.

The task force was founded in 1993 and works nationally to provide intelligence and training about gangs, terrorists and other security threats to communities, law enforcement agencies, schools and prisons. The nonprofit organization consists largely of employees and experts from corrections departments.

Daryl A. Vigil, manager of the Colorado Department of Correction’s high-security bed unit, has been elected the task

force’s interim executive director.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:19 PM

    This must be in celebration of the most high security solitary confinement beds per capita in the entire world, with the opening of the new CSP II. Persons kept in a cell 23 hours a day, having no human contact. On weekends, in their cell for 24 hours a day. 80% of whom are on anti-depressants and other prescribed drugs. Most of them will be kicked out of the prison with no job skills, discriminated against by the DOC, the Parole Board, and society, and will end up going back into prison. Should we be proud that our DOC administration now heads a gang task force?mpc

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