Colorado Revised Statutes

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-27-101.5 (2024)

Purposes of community corrections

✓ C.R.S. 2024: the 2025 and 2026 sessions are not included
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(1) The purpose of this article 27, with respect to community corrections, is to:

(a) Further all purposes of sentencing and improve public safety by reducing the incidence of future crime through design and implementation of research-based policies, practices, programs, and standards;

(b) Prepare, select, and assist people who, after serving a statutorily defined period of incarceration, will be transitioned and returned to the community through supported partnerships with local community corrections boards;

(c) Set individualized conditions of community corrections supervision and provide services and support to assist people in community corrections in addressing identified risks and needs; and

(d) Achieve a successful discharge from community corrections supervision through reduction of risks and needs and satisfactory compliance with conditions of placement.

Source: L. 2017: Entire section added, (HB 17-1147), ch. 82, p. 255, § 1, effective August 9.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2020–2020 · leading case: v. Barnett, 2020 COA 167.
v. Barnett, 2020 COA 167. · cites it 2× “” § 17-27-101.5(1)(a), C.R.S. 2020. ¶ 20 To strictly focus on government employees or entities who, as Barnett claims, receive salaries from taxpayer funds would exclude nongovernment employees who provide a “government function,” contrary to the plain language of the statutory…”
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-27-101.5(1)(a): 1 case
v. Barnett, 2020 COA 167. “” § 17-27-101.5(1)(a), C.R.S. 2020. ¶ 20 To strictly focus on government employees or entities who, as Barnett claims, receive salaries from taxpayer funds would exclude nongovernment employees who provide a “government function,” contrary to the plain language of the statutory…”
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