Private prisons a quick fix
Source: Vic Vela, The Daily Record (CO), 11/4/2006
Editor’s Note: This is the final part of a three-part series on the prison industry.
As prison beds grow sparse and the number of inmates increases at a significant rate, the Colorado Department of Corrections has, in recent years, continued to search for ways of accommodating its desperate need to house offenders.
........ Meanwhile, the State Legislature, citing tighter budgets and constituencies who balk at the idea of prisons “in their backyards”, has not approved funding to alleviate the problem for DOC state-run facilities since it allocated certificates of deposit funds for the construction of the new Colorado State Penitentiary in 2002. However, construction has not even begun on that facility.