State lawmakers consider measures to lower prison population

Name: State lawmakers consider measures to lower prison population
Uploaded: 2026-04-27T19:32:00-0600
Duration: 3 min 30 s
Description: Three months after Colorado's legislative Joint Budget Committee approved emergency funding for nearly 1,000 more beds in Colorado's prisons, the system is already near capacity again.

Three months after Colorado's legislative Joint Budget Committee approved emergency funding for nearly 1,000 more beds in Colorado's prisons, the system is already near capacity again.