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Colorado's New Prison-Gang Program Draws From Inmate Efforts
By westword.com- Joel Warner
Published: 08/10/2017

Rhidale Dotson knows what it’s like to be labeled. “Most people see me as a criminal,” he says. “Most people see me as this green jumpsuit and this DOC number on my name tag.”

He sits in the visiting room of Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility in Ordway, a place of somber concrete walls and razor-wire-topped prison fences far out in the desolate expanse of southeastern Colorado. The name tag on the chest of his green jumpsuit is stamped “86988”; that’s the number that’s been following him since he was convicted of conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery at age seventeen, before he was charged and later found guilty of murder sixteen years ago and sentenced to life without parole.

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