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FIXING THE WAR ON DRUGS IN COLORADO
COLORADO: As the Colorado General Assembly races toward adjournment next Wednesday, one important item still remains on its agenda: Senate Bill 318. The measure, by Sen. Ken Gordon, D-Denver, and Rep. Lynn Hefley, R-Colorado Springs, is a first step toward a more intelligent and effective approach to the "war on drugs" in Colorado.
About 20 percent of the 19,000 prisoners now behind bars in Colorado are incarcerated for offenses related to drugs, according to Gordon. More important, 75 percent of inmates in Colorado prisons have a substance-abuse problem that has almost certainly contributed to their committing more serious crimes - but only half of those receive any type of therapy. All too often, Colorado simply locks up drug offenders without trying to treat underlying drug- and alcohol-abuse problems. The result is that the gates to Colorado prisons resemble revolving doors as untreated drug offenders serve their time, shuffle out into society, re-offend, and return to durance vile.
Gordon and Hefley sought to break that cycle of failure in Colorado drug policy last year with SB 39, a bill that passed the House 61-1 and the Senate 28-7. The measure would have reduced sentences in Colorado for possession of less than a gram of certain drugs and used the $2.2 million those reductions would have saved for additional drug-rehab programs.
COLORADO: As the Colorado General Assembly races toward adjournment next Wednesday, one important item still remains on its agenda: Senate Bill 318. The measure, by Sen. Ken Gordon, D-Denver, and Rep. Lynn Hefley, R-Colorado Springs, is a first step toward a more intelligent and effective approach to the "war on drugs" in Colorado.
About 20 percent of the 19,000 prisoners now behind bars in Colorado are incarcerated for offenses related to drugs, according to Gordon. More important, 75 percent of inmates in Colorado prisons have a substance-abuse problem that has almost certainly contributed to their committing more serious crimes - but only half of those receive any type of therapy. All too often, Colorado simply locks up drug offenders without trying to treat underlying drug- and alcohol-abuse problems. The result is that the gates to Colorado prisons resemble revolving doors as untreated drug offenders serve their time, shuffle out into society, re-offend, and return to durance vile.
Gordon and Hefley sought to break that cycle of failure in Colorado drug policy last year with SB 39, a bill that passed the House 61-1 and the Senate 28-7. The measure would have reduced sentences in Colorado for possession of less than a gram of certain drugs and used the $2.2 million those reductions would have saved for additional drug-rehab programs.
