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Officials warn placement restrictions would shift treatment costs back to prisons as inmate population grows
Summary
DOCR briefed the committee on proposed placement‑authority changes in a pending bill, the fiscal uncertainty if transitional placement is curtailed, and the department's current use of county contracts and limited out‑of‑state swaps to manage capacity.
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Director Colby Braun told the committee that a pending bill (discussed in the hearing as “20 one‑twenty 8”) contains language, cited to section 10 in committee discussion, that would limit DOCR’s placement authority for transitional facilities and remove those programs from the statutory definition of confinement. Braun said the change would restrict the department’s current ability to place people in transitional settings and could require prisons to assume more…
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