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Inmates Responding To Incentives
By denverpost.com
Published: 11/15/2010

LIMON — Stacey Torres earned his way into one of the most dangerous prisons in Colorado with 66 rule violations for fighting, dealing drugs and defying officers — all while already doing time.

He was facing another stint at the maximum-security Colorado State Penitentiary when he was offered a spot in a pilot program called STAR, or Security Threat Administrative Review.

The 42-year-old habitual criminal has gone write-up-free since then, while doing homework in a series of cognitive-behavior classes. Torres is just one of many gangsters, lifers and killers at Limon Correctional Facility whose demeanor is changing. Along the way, he has learned a new vocabulary.

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