COLORADO ABOLISHES THE DEATH PENALTY AND ENDS PRISON GERRYMANDERING
Colorado hit two milestones this month. It abolished the death penalty, a long-sought win for criminal justice advocates.
“The state of Colorado is out of the ki
lling business,” Denise Maes, the policy director at the ACLU of Colorado, told the Political Report.
Colorado also ended prison gerrymandering, which is the practice of counting incarcerated people at their prison’s location rather than at their last address during redistricting. This practice shifts power from cities and more diverse communities, which suffer the brunt of mass incarceration, to the more white and rural areas where prisons are often located.
Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat, signed these two bills into law in recent days; the legislature had adopted them in February.
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