Tag: tax-payers-money
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What’s On Your Mind? Non-Profit Salaries, Reentry Services, and Mental Health Programs.
This article is written by someone with lived experience in Colorado’s reentry system—not always a positive one. It seeks to shed light on pressing issues within mental health services, reentry programs, and the broader non-profit sector in Colorado, which have reached what some describe as a pandemic of systemic dysfunction. The Facebook prompt “What’s on your…
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Mass Incarceration: Debunking the Top Ten Myths and Uncovering Why Taxpayers are Unaware of the $182 Billion Spent on Imprisonment. Does Incarceration – Prison Truly Enhance Public Safety?
A myth is a widely held but false belief or idea. It often involves a traditional story, typically involving supernatural events or beings, that explains natural phenomena, customs, or historical events. In a more general sense, a myth can also refer to any misconception, false belief, or exaggerated narrative that is passed along as truth,…
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The State of Community Corrections: A Call for Reform. The Reality of Community Corrections in Colorado: A Demand for Accountability. A closer examination of the case managers at ICCS, a facility heavily utilized by the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) and local courts, reveals the urgent need for change. The time for reform is now.
Justyna M. in Criminal Justice Community corrections in Colorado is a system of approximately 30 “halfway houses”, that provides asentencing alternative for judges to divert individuals from prison (Diversion community corrections) and aresidential community placement for individuals referred from the prison system (Transition communitycorrections). Eligibility for community corrections is defined in statute. Individuals participating in…
Justice Unlocked. 