Colorado Prisons are Full…and 2018 Law Requires Them to Reduce Their Populations

Photo: The visitors parking lot of the Denver Reception and Diagnostic Center, a state prison within the Colorado Department of Corrections, taken on Feb. 6, 2020. (Moe Clark/Colorado Newsline)

This story by Lindsey Toomer appeared on Colorado Newsline on September 8, 2025.

Criminal justice reform advocates are pressing Colorado corrections officials for more details on their efforts to reduce the state’s prison population, after the requirements of a 2018 law were triggered for the first time…

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