DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(R) Somebody
80%
20%
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Jena Griswold
60%↑
40%↑
(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
(D) Jerry DiTullio
60%↑
30%
20%↓
(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Somebody
80%
40%
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) Somebody
90%
10%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Somebody
80%
20%
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Manny Rutinel
(D) Yadira Caraveo
45%↓
40%↑
30%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(R) Somebody
80%
20%
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Jena Griswold
60%↑
40%↑
(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
(D) Jerry DiTullio
60%↑
30%
20%↓
(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Somebody
80%
40%
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) Somebody
90%
10%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Somebody
80%
20%
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Manny Rutinel
(D) Yadira Caraveo
45%↓
40%↑
30%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
September 17, 2009 04:51 PM UTC
13 Comments
Sounds Stalinesque to me.
Prison is college for criminals.
Networkng takes place.
If no one will give a felon a job when ho or she gets out, then few options remain to sustain life, or change behavior.
The DOC is big business in this country. Private prisons run for profit sound like labor camps.
The whole system needs revamping.
Private prisons have incentives to PROMOTE recidivism, its what drives their growth.
The unemployability of felons and chemical addiction are probably the 2 greatest causes of recidivism.
If you want to cut the crime rate, get young men jobs.
Nothing.
Considering Josh Penry still won’t release his full, itemized, line-by-line budget plan, I would like to know where he would try to find the cuts if not from releasing eligible prisoners 6 months early.
What’s kind of ironic about this whole thing is that this is a case where the fact that the Governor relies on blue ribbon commissions and panels all the time can come in handy. It’s not like he came up with these recommendations all by himself–he is executi9ng a plan from the Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice.
As soon as Josh Penry can show us where he’d find the funds to cut, then he can criticize the Governor on things like this. Until then, he gets to sit at the kids table and order off the clown face menu.
Don’t do this.
Don’t do that.
Josh Penry spews his ignorant CSB, yet again. Will this guy ever realize that sane people will never buy his garbage? Not all people in Colorado are as dumb as his Mesa County racist teabagger backers. But he still keeps hoping, I guess.
The main (not only)reason that the U.S. imprisons more people than anybody else is that we have sizeable minorities of different color than the majority with the black group having been held in slavery for a couple hundred years and then in economic servitude for a hundred years coupled with the lingering idiotic notion of frontier justice. If the Chinese had a different color sizeable minority group then they would probably be number 1 in incarceration. White collar criminals (usually white people) don’t go to jail unless the crimes are extreme. Blue collar criminals go to jail, including “white trash.” The white trash label signifying that they are not really one of us – the legitimate white people. White people even go to black countries, take over, rename them for famous white people (e.g., Rhodesia), and enslave and incarcerate the native citizens. Because the white people are now more tolerant (the ruling class and their lackeys having lost the civil rights battle), we have to incarcerate them to show em who’s still the boss.
Selective enforcemnt and lack of resources for good legal counicl equates to institutional racism.
It will be better if Doug Bruce and/or Independence Institute also support the plan since it will save tax dollars and move us further down road towards become the Somalia of the Rockies.
…and I know a lot of Democrats who agree with me. But on this issue, I think there’s something to be said for pragmatism. I wouldn’t want to see a murderer or rapist go free a day early, but short of violent felons, I would support the early release program.
Ritter still needs to look at cutting a lot of other programs–that budget hole wont be fixed from shedding a fraction of the prison population. But it’s a start.