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Bipartisan youth justice reform is now on its way to Colorado’s guv
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Kids under 12 years old who commit misdemeanors no longer will face mandatory detention in the Division of Youth Corrections if Gov. John Hickenlooper signs legislation unanimously approved by the Senate Monday. House Bill 1207, sponsored in the Senate by state Sen. Kevin Priola, R-Henderson, and in the House by state Rep. Pete Lee, D-Colorado Springs, gives…
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Culling the men from the boys in Colorado’s youth-offender system
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Sadly, too many of the 18- to 21-year-old inmates in the state’s Division of Youth Corrections already are hardened and violent criminals. Whatever their prospects for rehabilitation, they are at the very least a bad influence on younger offenders incarcerated in the system and often enough pose an imminent danger to them. Senate Bill 289,…
