17 Colorado sheriffs seek resolution to backlog of prison inmate transfers

KDVR – Wild Sharif County Office, along with 16 other police in Colorado, He wrote to the governor of the state, Jared Police, calling for a decision to accumulate a prisoner in the Ministry of Corrections in Colorado.

The 17 police sent a joint letter to Police on July 10, and they told the ruler that the accumulation of continuous transfer of prisoners and insufficient Diem to the DIC-SENTED prisoners “puts an unsustainable burden on our prison operations and local taxpayers.”

The mayor of operations accused the document of their failure to assume the custody of the convicted individuals “at the appropriate time”, which creates accumulation in the prisons of the provinces. Police mayor also pointed to the delay in the mental health assessments that the court ordered to the government hospital, which also adds the resource and overcrowding strain.

“It was not intended from the prisons of the provinces – nor funded – the state prisoners for long periods,” the message is useful to Police. “However, throughout Colorado, provinces are forced to expand the ability of housing and increase employees just to keep pace with the increasing number of prisoners who should be already in custody.”

Wild Sharif Provincial Office said that when looking at the data available for his prison last year, it costs about $ 185.51 a day to house one prisoner in Wild County Prison. The Wild County Office said that the country is paying $ 77.16 every day to a prisoner of accumulation of DOC.

Sharif’s office said that the country’s payment “barely covers” 41 % of the costs of housing.

The general ruler urges:

  • Speeding and reducing the accumulation of transfer of the document using an emergency bed capacity or contracted facilities
  • Adjust the payment rate for each DIEM to reflect the boycott costs
  • Improving the ability of mental health treatment facilities to manage the assessments and transfers that the court ordered
  • He meets with the mayor of Colorado to determine and implement common solutions

“This was a systematic issue that has become worse in the framework of the police administration,” said Sharif Steve Steve Rells.

The message was signed to the ruler by a police mayor at El Paso, Teller, Pueblo, Douglas, Lake, Weld, Cheyenne, Montrose, Gilpin, OTERO, Fremont, Grand, Archuleta, Kit Carson, Conejos, Garfield, Costilla.

Colorado Governor’s office said he agreed with the feelings expressed by mayor. This statement was submitted to Fox31 on the message.

“The ruler agrees Police on the message and looks forward to working with the mayor of treatment to address accumulation. Among the resources and the ability to address issues faced by provinces and provinces.

Colorado Governor Office

Fox31 also arrived at the Ministry of Corrections in Colorado for its position on the message and received another long statement. The agency said it “understands and shares the concerns” that were raised in the letter, and works with the mayor’s mayor, the ruler’s office and the General Assembly of Colorado.

The document said: “Public safety throughout Colorado is our basic mission, and this is the responsibility that we share with the mayor’s mayor.” “The administration is still committed to ensuring the status of safe and suitable prisoners during the withdrawal process. We realize that these places accumulated on local facilities and continue to give the priorities of solutions that are effective and sustainable in terms of operational terms.”

The document went on to say that he is working on budget and politics discussions with the leadership of the state, and said that funding to address the increasing accumulation of prisoners was complicated.

“Treating this problem will require find a meaningful solution,” Kolorado Duck Books.

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