The following is part of Colorado
Democratic Criminal Justice Platform:
"We
support: recognizing the inherent difference between children and
adults. We advocate: separate trial and sentencing procedures for
serious offenses; juvenile facilities, not prisons, as the best
rehabilitation facilities; and a reasonable opportunity for parole and
community corrections of convicted juvenile offenders currently serving
life in adult prison; a thorough overhaul of the current system of
retributive justice that incarcerates prisoners with little hope for,
or assistance with, rehabilitation; programs of alternative sentencing
and restorative justice, particularly for non-violent offenders, and a
revision of sentencing guidelines to restore more discretion to
judges..."
Contact
Democratic legislators. Thank them for their support and ask them
to enact comprehensive sentencing reform for ALL juveniles in
adult prisons -- and to lower sentences for our current young men and
women serving life.
Email
Republican
legislators. Ask them to provide fiscally responsible alternatives to
wholesale incarceration of children in adult prisons. Ask them to
provide education, not incarceration -- and comprehensive
sentencing reform for all juveniles sentenced as adults.
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