Colorado Corrections – Pew Report March 2009
July 20, 2009
The Pew Center on the States has recently released their report "One in 31: The Long Reach of American Corrections." This is an updated report on last years report revealing a staggering social expense to our current corrections system.
Here are some relevant statistics for Colorado:
- 1 in 29 adults is under correctional control (compared with 1 in 102 adults in 1982).
- Colorado spent $625 Million on corrections (nearly twice spending on higher ed)
- By end of 2007, 30% of correctional population was in prison or jail (in 1982 that figure was 26%)
- Colorado has 77,635 people in probation (238 federal)
- Colorado has 11,086 people on parole (954 federal)
- Colorado has 22,666 people in prison (1,736 federal)
- Colorado has 13,871 people in jail
- For every $1 Colorado spent on prisons in 2008, it spent $0.15 on probation and parole.
- 1 day of prison costs ($76.51) = 6 days of parole or 21 days of probation.
- Colorado ranks 15th highest prison / corrections population among the 50 states
You can download the full report by visiting www.pewcenteronthestates.org/publicsafety.
We can not afford to ignore sentencing reform in this era of staggering budget shortfalls. We are spending an extraordinary amount of money incarcerating primarily non-violent offenders.
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i am behind you 100% my husband is on parole and it seems like all they want to do is throw him back in there i think colorado is money hungry. I am a nurse with six children and my husband is my back bone but he is apart of colorado as well and right now they have him… This i believe is double jeopardy how can some one do time in prison for a crime and then have to do more time when they get out its not fare that colorado has manatory parole for simple crimes….. I need my husband to serve in this world and for my children to have there father…. This is why women fall and land up on welfare because they take are men away for simple crimes and we cant do it our selfs my income alone does not meet monthly bills my husband carried this family and now that he is in jail for a simple crime that he did not commit the parole hold stays till the charges get dropped. In the mean time i fall and go on welfare to keep food on the table how is this fare. My husband has sense lost his job that he has had for the past five years in a really good company this also means my children have no medical ins. Now… What am i to do….. I want my life back.. i want my husband..
— latisha gutierrez · Jul 30, 07:36 PM · #