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| A New Colorado Prison Sits Empty While Taxpayers Foot The Bill |
| By cpr.org- Andrea Dukakis |
| Published: 09/14/2015 |
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An empty prison southwest of Colorado Springs is emblematic of a dramatic shift in how the state treats inmates. The prison -- known as CSP II-- opened in 2010 and was designed exclusively to house people in solitary confinement. Since then, the state's use of solitary is down, but taxpayers are still paying tens of millions of dollars a year for the prison. The Colorado Department of Corrections is considering how to re-purpose the facility. Christie Donner is with the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition. She opposed building the prison from the beginning. Donner spoke with CPR's Andrea Dukakis. On growing use of isolation for Colorado inmates in the 1990's: "All of a sudden we started to put more and more people into solitary confinement and for longer periods of time as a prison management tool." Read More. |
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