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| Three hundred show to oppose closing |
| By Post Independent |
| Published: 02/11/2009 |
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COLORADO - Around 300 people turned out for a public meeting Tuesday night to oppose a proposal made by the governor’s office last week to shut down the Rifle Correctional Center. A crowd of people from all walks of life packed into the auditorium at Colorado Mountain College’s West Garfield Campus in south Rifle to voice their opinions on the proposed closure. Officials from the Department of Corrections (DOC) mediated the meeting, explaining their position and taking comments from the crowd. “This is really your meeting as opposed to ours,” said Ari Zavaras, executive director of the DOC. Zavaras acknowledged that the recommendation to close the Rifle Correctional Center (RCC), a 192-bed facility with 57 employees, was one of the most difficult decisions he’d had to make in his life as it affected so many people. Mayor Keith Lambert was one of many who spoke in opposition of the closing of the Rifle Correctional Center, which not only provides local staff jobs, but provides free labor for a number of facilities throughout the city, including the senior center, the city’s parks department, the Burning Mountains Fire Protection District, the Rifle Fish Hatchery and others, which would not be able to provide services without the inmate labor. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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