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| Fewer Felonies Fewer Facilities: Colorado Prison Closures Would Mean Job Losses |
| By kunc.org - Anne Imse |
| Published: 01/28/2013 |
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Colorado closed the brand-new Colorado State Penitentiary II last year and now needs to shut down more prisons as the population shrinks. Colorado’s prison population is diminishing so quickly that the state could close 2 to 10 prisons in the coming 18 months. That broad estimate is based on which facilities are chosen for closure. “It looks like the whole system should be shrinking,” said state Sen. Kent Lambert, R-Colorado Springs, at a recent legislative hearing. Colorado is already at 7,500 fewer inmates than it once expected in 2013. It has closed three state prisons and stopped using two private prisons. “We think that is a really, really big deal,” said Roxane White, chief of staff to Gov. John Hickenlooper. Read More. |
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