June 6, 2011
CDCR policy - release criminal aliens without parole hold?
Criminals find their way to Colorado prisons from Mongolia, Iraq, the Czech Republic, the Fiji Islands and 75 other nations.
Those foreign inmates will likely be eligible for deportation as soon as their sentences are complete. In the meantime, they are among the fastest-growing segments of the state's prison population and a growing drain on already-scarce resources at the Department of Corrections.
Since 2005, the number of Colorado's foreign-born inmates has increased 51 percent to 1,953...
LINK - DenverPost.com
