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Title 17, Corrections

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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-33-102 Colorado offender identification program - rules - report - fee waiver - definitions
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(1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Offender ID bank" means the facility in the department where the department securely stores offender identification documents it has acquired. (b) "Program" means the program established in this section to p…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-33-103 Pre-release and reentry program development - operation - report - definitions - repeal
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(1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Facility" means the Sterling correctional facility. (b) "Program" means a pre-release and reentry program developed in consultation with residents pursuant to this section. (c) "Program developer" means the …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-33-104 Warrant search prior to offender's release - notification to offender, public defender, and court - legislative intent - definitions
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(1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Community corrections eligibility date" means the date an offender is eligible to be placed in a community corrections program pursuant to section 18-1.3-301 (2)(b), regardless of whether state law or an adm…

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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-34-101 Juveniles and young adults who are convicted as adults in district court and young adults convicted under twenty-one years of age - eligibility for specialized program placement - petitions - definition

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(1) (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an offender serving a sentence in the department for a felony offense as a result of the filing of criminal charges by an information or indictment pursuant to section 19-2.5-801, or the transfer of proceedings to the district c…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-34-102 Specialized program for juveniles and young adults convicted as adults and young adults convicted under twenty-one years of age - report - definition

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(1) The department shall develop and implement a specialized program for offenders who have been sentenced to an adult prison for a felony offense committed while the offender was under eighteen years of age as a result of the filing of criminal charges by an information or indic…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-40-101 Definitions

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As used in this article 40, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Brain injury" has the same meaning as set forth in section 26-1-301 (1.5). (1.3) "Correctional institution" means the correctional facilities at Cañon City, the correctional facilities at Buena Vista, or any …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-40-102 Program established

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(1) There is hereby established the Colorado diagnostic program. (2) The primary function and purpose of the program shall be to provide a diagnostic examination and evaluation of all offenders sentenced by the courts of this state, so that each such offender may be assigned to a…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-40-103 Examination of offenders - report

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(1) As soon as possible after July 1, 1974, each offender entering the diagnostic center shall receive appropriate diagnostic services, and each offender's treatment and employment needs shall be identified. Information provided pursuant to section 17-40-104 shall be considered i…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-40-104 Responsibility to the program of court imposing sentence

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Before or at the same time any offender is transported to the diagnostic center, the sentencing court shall transmit to the superintendent of the program any available presentence report, offense report, or diagnostic or clinical information and any recommendation the court may d…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-40-105 Appointment of personnel to the program

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Subject to the provisions of section 13 of article XII of the state constitution, the executive director shall appoint the superintendent. The superintendent shall appoint such supervisors, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, correctional specialists, and other officers…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-40-106 Responsibilities of the superintendent

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(1) The superintendent shall be responsible for the administration of diagnostic services and the supervision of the employees of the program. (2) The superintendent shall be responsible for the management, control, regulation, and operation of the physical facilities and for the…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-40-107 Transfer of prisoners for examination - assignment

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The executive director may transfer any offender to the program for study and examination and, upon completion thereof, shall cause the offender to be assigned pursuant to this article. Source: L. 77: Entire title R&RE, p. 949, § 10, effective August 1.

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-42-101 Freedom of worship

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(1) All persons who are confined to a correctional facility as defined in section 17-1-102 shall have the right to worship according to the dictates of their consciences, and such persons shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to freely exercise their religious beliefs withou…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-42-102 American Indians - freedom of worship - definitions

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(1) The general assembly hereby finds, determines, and declares that American Indian religions and religious beliefs predate the creation of the United States constitution; however, understanding of and respect for American Indian religious practices is not widespread among non-i…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-42-103 Policies concerning inmates' use of telephones - excessive rates prohibited - transparency of communications services in correctional facilities - report - definitions - rules

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(1) The department shall provide voice penal communications services to persons in the department's custody and who are confined in a correctional facility or private contract prison under contract with the department. The department may supplement voice penal communications serv…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-42-104 Inmates incarcerated in other states - notifications to victims required - exceptions - definitions

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(1) If the department determines that an inmate is eligible for relocation to a penal institution in another state pursuant to the "Interstate Corrections Compact", part 16 of article 60 of title 24, then not later than twenty-four hours after such determination, the department s…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-42-105 Incarcerated parents - notification to court - mittimus - family services coordinator - report - policies

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(1) (a) Pursuant to section 19-3-502 (5.5)(c), a representative of the facility where the respondent is incarcerated shall, when possible, inform the court not less than seventy-two hours prior to a dependency and neglect proceeding if it cannot facilitate transportation of the r…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-101 One continuous sentence

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For the purposes of this article, when any inmate has been committed under several convictions with separate sentences, the department shall construe all sentences as one continuous sentence. Source: L. 84: Entire article R&RE, p. 517, § 1, effective July 1. ANNOTATION Cumulative…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-102 Custody of department

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When any person is sentenced to any correctional facility, that person shall be deemed to be in the custody of the executive director or his designee and shall begin serving his sentence on the date of sentencing. Source: L. 84: Entire article R&RE, p. 517, § 1, effective July 1.…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-102.5 Purpose of parole

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(1) The purposes of this article with respect to parole are: (a) To further all purposes of sentencing and improve public safety by reducing the incidence of crime and technical parole violations committed by people on parole; (b) To prepare, select, and assist people who, after …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-103 Computation of time

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No inmate shall be discharged from the department until he has remained the full term for which he was sentenced, to be computed on and after the day on which he was received into the same and excluding any time the inmate may have been at large by reason of escape therefrom, unl…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-104 Parole - regulations

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(1) Any inmate in the custody of the department may be allowed to go on parole in accordance with section 17-22.5-403, subject to the provisions and conditions contained in this article and article 2 of this title. (2) (a) No inmate imprisoned under a life sentence for a crime co…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-105 Applicability of part

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The provisions of this part 1 shall apply to all offenders sentenced to the department. Source: L. 84: Entire article R&RE, p. 518, § 1, effective July 1.

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-107 Administrative release and revocation guidelines - creation

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(1) (a) The division of criminal justice in the department of public safety, in consultation with the state board of parole, shall develop an administrative release guideline instrument for use by the board in evaluating applications for parole. (b) The administrative release gui…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-108 Appropriation of savings from earned time awarded for completing an accredited higher education program - budget request requirement

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(1) For state fiscal year 2024-25, and for each state fiscal year thereafter, the general assembly shall annually appropriate the savings incurred during the prior state fiscal year resulting from the deduction of earned time pursuant to section 17-22.5-405 (3.7) for completion o…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-201 Good time credit allowable

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(1) Unless otherwise provided by law, every inmate confined in a correctional facility of the department who has committed no infraction of the rules or regulations of the department or the laws of the state and who performs in a faithful, diligent, industrious, orderly, and peac…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-202 Release - clothes, money, transportation - reentry services - reports

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(1) [Editor's note: This version of subsection (1) is effective until January 1, 2027.] Ten days prior to the date on which any inmate confined in a correctional facility is entitled to be discharged or to be paroled from said correctional facility, the executive director or the …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-203 Time of parole not considered when inmate is reincarcerated

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(1) The paroled inmate, upon an order of the state board of parole, may be returned to the custody of the department according to the terms of his original sentence, and, in computing the period of his confinement, the time between his release and his return to said custody shall…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-301 Good time

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(1) Each person sentenced for a crime committed on or after July 1, 1979, but before July 1, 1981, whose conduct indicates that he has substantially observed all of the rules and regulations of the institution or facility in which he has been confined and has faithfully performed…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-302 Earned time

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(1) In addition to the good time authorized in section 17-22.5-301, earned time, not to exceed thirty days for every six months of incarceration, may be deducted from the inmate's sentence upon a demonstration to the department by the inmate that he has made substantial and consi…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-303 Parole

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(1) As to any person sentenced for a class 2, class 3, class 4, or class 5 felony committed on or after July 1, 1979, but before July 1, 1981, the division of adult parole shall provide a one-year period of parole supervision and assistance in securing employment, housing, and su…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-303.3 Violent offenders - parole

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(1) Any person sentenced for second degree murder, first degree assault, first degree kidnapping, unless the first degree kidnapping is a class 1 felony, first or second degree sexual assault, first degree arson, first degree burglary, or aggravated robbery, committed on or after…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-304 Part affects only certain inmates

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The good time provisions of this part 3 are effective July 1, 1979, and shall apply only to those persons convicted of crimes committed on or after said date. No person subject to the good time provisions of part 2 of this article shall be eligible for any of the provisions autho…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-305 Eligibility for other statutory provisions

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(1) No person subject to the provisions of section 17-22.5-301 (1) shall be eligible for any of the time limit and vesting provisions of section 17-22.5-301 (2) or (3) or 17-22.5-302 (4). (2) No person subject to the provisions of section 17-22.5-301 (2) shall be eligible for any…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-306 Transfer of functions

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The executive director shall, on and after July 1, 1984, execute, administer, perform, and enforce the rights, powers, duties, functions, and obligations formerly vested in the state board of parole with respect to the earned time provisions of section 17-22.5-302. Notwithstandin…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-307 Consecutive or concurrent sentences - clarification of mittimus

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(1) If the department receives custody of a defendant who is sentenced to serve two or more terms of incarceration in the custody of the department, and any mittimus concerning the defendant's sentence or sentences does not clearly indicate whether the defendant's sentences are t…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-401 Legislative declaration

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The general assembly hereby declares that if any inmate does not demonstrate positive behavior during incarceration, such inmate should be required to serve out the full sentence imposed upon such inmate. If any inmate does demonstrate positive behavior during incarceration, such…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-402 Discharge from custody

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(1) No inmate shall be discharged from the department until he has remained the full term for which he was sentenced, to be computed on and after the date upon which the sentence becomes effective and excluding any time the inmate may have been at large by reason of escape theref…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-403 Parole eligibility

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(1) Any person sentenced for a class 2, class 3, class 4, class 5, or class 6 felony, or a level 1, level 2, level 3, or level 4 drug felony, or any unclassified felony shall be eligible for parole after such person has served fifty percent of the sentence imposed upon such perso…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-403.5 Special needs parole

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(1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a special needs offender, as defined in section 17-1-102 (7.6), may be eligible for parole prior to or after the offender's parole eligibility date pursuant to this section if: (a) The department determines that the inmate…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-403.7 Parole eligibility - youthful offender - juvenile offender convicted as adult - definition

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(1) As used in this section, "inmate" means a person: (a) (I) Who is convicted as an adult of a felony following direct filing of an information or indictment in the district court pursuant to section 19-2.5-801; (II) Who is convicted as an adult of a felony following transfer of…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-404 Parole guidelines - definition

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(1) The general assembly hereby finds that: (a) The risk of reoffense shall be the central consideration by the state board of parole in making decisions related to the timing and conditions of release on parole or revocation of parole; (b) Research demonstrates that actuarial ri…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-404.5 Presumption of parole - drug offenders

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(1) There shall be a presumption, subject to the final discretion of the parole board, in favor of granting parole to an inmate who has reached his or her parole eligibility date and who: (a) Is serving a sentence for which the controlling term of incarceration is based on a felo…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-404.7 Presumption of parole - nonviolent offenders with ICE detainers

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(1) There shall be a presumption, subject to the final discretion of the parole board, in favor of granting parole to an inmate who has reached his or her parole eligibility date and who: (a) Has been assessed by the Colorado risk assessment scale developed pursuant to section 17…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-405 Earned time - earned release time - achievement earned time - working group - definition - repeal

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(1) Earned time, not to exceed ten days for each month of incarceration or parole, may be deducted from the inmate's sentence upon a demonstration to the department by the inmate, which is certified by the inmate's case manager or community parole officer, that the inmate has mad…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-406 Applicability of part

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(1) (a) This part 4 applies to all offenders sentenced for crimes committed on or after July 1, 1979. (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subsection (1), the amount of earned time which may be credited pursuant to this part 4 to any inmate incarcerated on or before July 1, …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-26.5-101 Multijurisdictional jails - authorized

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The general assembly hereby authorizes any county, city and county, city, or the department of corrections of the state of Colorado to enter into a contract or contracts with each other in accordance with part 2 of article 1 of title 29, C.R.S., to design, locate, construct, and …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-26.5-102 Contracts for multijurisdictional jails - requirements

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(1) Any contract or contracts for the creation of a multijurisdictional jail as described in section 17-26.5-101 shall contain the following requirements: (a) An agreement regarding involvement by each of the governmental entities in the predesign planning, design, location, and …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-27.1-101 Nongovernmental facilities for offenders - registration - notifications - penalties - definitions

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(1) (a) The general assembly finds that the transfer into Colorado of persons that have been convicted of or have agreed to a deferred judgment, deferred sentence, or deferred prosecution for a crime in another state who are required to participate in private treatment programs i…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-27.5-101 Authority to establish intensive supervision programs for parolees and community corrections offenders

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(1) (a) The department shall have the authority to establish and directly operate an intensive supervision program for any offender not having more than one hundred eighty days remaining until such offender's parole eligibility date and for any offender who successfully completes…