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Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-011 Order Primary source read

Executive Order D 2020 016

Temporarily Suspending Certain Regulatory Statutes Concerning Criminal Justice Due to the Presence of COVID-19 (suspension of the Department of Corrections' duty to receive and take custody of prisoners; earned-time and special-needs-parole criteria suspended; community corrections funding)

Governor Jared Polis · Colorado (Governor; Department of Corrections; Department of Public Safety; community corrections); State level (State)

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Jurisdiction
Colorado (Governor; Department of Corrections; Department of Public Safety; community corrections); State level · Colorado
Level
State
Authority
C.R.S. § 24-33.5-704(7)(a)
Issued
2020-03-25 Mar. 25, 2020
Effective
2020-03-25
End
Thirty days, amended and extended by D 2020 043 (Apr. 23, 2020; Ex. 012) and successors (D 2020 166 of Aug. 2020 continued the criminal-justice suspensions) (read as 2020-12-31)
In force
Mar. 25, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4
Limitation types
Health care ordersOther
Addressees
  • Colorado Department of Corrections
  • Department of Public Safety
  • county jails and sheriffs holding sentenced prisoners
  • community corrections programs
  • Parole Board
Functions reached
  • CB county jails and their vendors (sentenced population retained 'in any pre-transfer facility')
  • OP DOC intake and reception
  • CB community corrections contractors (subsistence payments suspended; funding shifted)
  • SC
Collection
State corrections, emergency management and Guard AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD

Operative words

A. In compliance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Interim Guidance on Management of Correctional and Detention Facilities, I temporarily suspend the Colorado Department of Corrections' (DOC) duty to receive and take custody of prisoners pursuant to C.R.S. § 16-11-301 and -308. I direct DOC to identify the criteria that would justify the acceptance of such prisoners. Offenders shall remain in any pre-transfer facility until otherwise directed by the DOC. B. I temporarily suspend the caps and criteria on awards of earned time credits set forth in C.R.S. § 17-22.5-405.... G. I direct DPS to identify funding allocated in the Fiscal Year 2019-2020 to be utilized for the purposes of suspending the $17.00 a day subsistence payments required from community corrections clients...

Enforcement

C.R.S. § 24-33.5-704(4) (orders have the force and effect of law); suspension of statutes

Notes

Colorado's community corrections programs are operated by private and non-profit contractors; the order shifted their revenue from client subsistence payments to State funding and directed 'staff retention, and program financial stability' spending.

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