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The wait for competency evaluations and restoration services is postponing court cases, delaying help for prisoners and costing taxpayers millions.
Colorado's patchwork system of jails will soon have a baseline set of standards guiding how they operate, but the state's Jail Standards Commission has struggled to figure out oversight.
For the first time in state history, Colorado's patchwork system of jails will soon have a baseline set of standards guiding how they feed, house, restrain and care for inmates. But how to ensure jails comply with the rules has been a harder question to settle.
Colorado's patchwork system of jails will soon have a baseline set of standards guiding how they operate, but the state's Jail Standards Commission has struggled to figure out oversight.
More than 500 employees in the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender signed a petition this spring raising concerns about how a $16 million wage increase will be divvied up among workers.