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| Prison violence requires answers |
| By denverpost.com |
| Published: 01/19/2010 |
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Colorado's budget crisis is exacting a grim and vicious toll on some state prisoners. An uncomfortable number of high-risk inmates are now being housed with less dangerous offenders, creating a volatile mix that has led to three inmate murders and a surge of assaults. The problem could be solved if Colorado had the money to staff a new, $208 million maximum-security prison that workers will finish building in Cañon City this summer. But where, in these times of budgetary woes, to get the $20.5 million to run the facility that will sit empty? The problem is indicative of the difficult fiscal dilemmas the new governor of Colorado will face. We think the candidates for Colorado governor should address the problem on the campaign stump and tell us how it might be solved. Given the strictures on the state budget, merely saying they'd make cuts elsewhere won't work. Do you cut K-12 education further — and how, given the constraints of Amendment 23? Or do you whack higher education again? Would you raise revenues, and how? Read More. |
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