To: The Colorado State House, The Colorado State Senate, and Governor Jared Polis
Rehabilitation or Extreme Rendition?
Let's treat inmates humanely, reduce recidivism, stop the War on Drugs, reduce Penal Overcrowding and eliminate the need for Privatized Prison Profiteering. If our legislators saw the light, then inmates would be able to also.
Why is this important?
All prisoners have been convicted of crimes, some petty and some heinous. They all have one thing in common: A serious lack of sincere rehabilitation efforts. Many are locked in their cells 24 hours/day, and the Light Deprivation alone puts them on a slippery slope towards recidivism. This excites those those that are building Privatized Prisons and can always use more customers. Let's let inmates see the light of day, get trained in a skill they can use to become taxpayers instead of deficit-stretchers, and STOP the pathetic War on Drugs. Then we will be addressing the deficit in multiple ways and minimizing the overcrowding that leads to Private Prison Profiteering. WWJD? Think it through.