The General Assembly should provide funding for a specialized program in the community corrections budget for very high risk offenders. This program requires a differential per diem, appropriate standards of practice, and services to address what criminologists term the "top four criminogenic needs." (Footnote: 1)

Increase the number of Drug Recognition Experts (DREs) ensuring sufficient coverage in rural and frontier areas of the state.

Commission legislative recommendations shall include a minority impact statement.

 

*Colorado Association of Community Corrections Boards

**Governor's Community Corrections Advisory Council

Provide funding to enhance the technology available to the parole board members, hearing officers, and administrative law judges so that they may obtain items such as laptop computers, other hardware, software, and video conferencing, to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of parole board hearings and operations. Allow electronic requests for modifications of conditions of parole.

To promote continuity of supervision, the Department of Corrections should develop consistent policies and trainings that promote uniformity in establishing and implementing discretionary conditions and privileges of parole supervision.

To reduce the number of offenders with probation violations resulting in a prison sentence, the Division of Probation Services should implement a technical violations program that focuses on these offenders and encourages them to become compliant with probation supervision.

To identify the gaps between available services and needs, survey the availability and capacity of all programs in the Department of Corrections, local jails, and community corrections, and compare these with the assessed needs of the corresponding populations.