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| New Department of Corrections Executive Director Rick Raemisch pledges changes, transparency |
| By thedenverchannel.com - Theresa Marchetta |
| Published: 12/30/2013 |
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On the top of Executive Director Rick Raemisch's list for moving forward is the completion of work started by his predecessor, Tom Clements: an effort to reduce the number of inmates held in administrative segregation, which is informally known as solitary confinement. The parolee who murdered Clements and another man, Nate Leon, in March was released onto parole directly from administrative segregation "A year ago we had, for instance, 140 major mentally ill individuals in administrative segregation. Today we have 8 and we're working on those 8," Raemisch said. "We are down from about slightly over 7 percent of the population being in administrative segregation to down to 3.9 percent." Raemisch told Marchetta, "We have people that are well trained on how to handle dangerous people, and yet we felt they are too dangerous to be in general population, so we'll put them in administrative segregation and then, 'oh by the way,' release them into the community. It just doesn't make any sense. You are right, so we're developing a procedure process where that simply isn't going to happen." Marchetta pressed for specifics, "Where are you in that process?" "We're about half way done," he said. "We've gone through, I believe, last count was about 117 policies out of 300 and some." Raemisch also remarked about previously unseen changes within the department. Read More. |
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