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CCJRC is here to help people who are impacted by crime and the criminal justice system. We don’t provide direct services but we know a lot of community-based service organizations that do and we’re happy to make suggestions and connections. We are also available to answer questions or help you navigate the criminal justice and health care systems.
Resources
Tell Them You Love Them: A resource guide for incarcerated parents in Colorado – 1st edition. This 145 page book provides extensive information for parents and family members who are impacted by incarceration and who may be dealing with the family law systems as well. It is intended to help:
people who are in jails, prisons, or community corrections.
people who are on probation or parole
families/friends
service providers
corrections staff
Currently sold out. The new 7th edition will be available this summer (2025)
This 260 page book provides extensive information to help people prepare for release and successfully reintegrate back into their families and communities. This publication is helpful for people involved in the criminal justice system, their families, community service providers and criminal justice professionals.
The book Never Going Back: 7 Steps to Staying Out of Prison encapsulizes the cognitive restructuring approach of Second Chance Center, which promotes sustained behavior change. Though not an autobiographical work it does reflect a transformational journey that was many years in the making.
Learn more about how to order by contacting the Second Chance Center.
Download Parenting From Prison: A Resource Guide for Parents Incarcerated in Colorado [PDF]
Community nonprofit organizations are available to help people on parole in Colorado. Services are free and people can contact the programs directly or people can be referred to any of these programs by his/her parole officer or DOC community reentry specialist.
- Colorado Criminal Defense Institute: Find out more about free legal clinics across the state to help with record sealing, expungement, sex offender de-registration and orders of collateral relief
- Colorado Department of Corrections: On this site, you can access the DOC inmate locator, find out facility information and directions, visiting information, and administrative regulations.
- Colorado Division of Adult Parole: On this site you will find locations of parole offices in Colorado and reentry resources available through the Department of Corrections
- Colorado Board of Parole: On this site you can find contact information for the Parole Board, the parole hearing schedule, and lots more.
- The Colorado Criminal Defense Bar: On this site you can get information that can help you find a criminal defense lawyer in Colorado.
- Judicial Districts of Colorado: On this site you can find out locations for courts in Colorado
- Probation offices in Colorado: On this site you can find out locations for probation offices in Colorado
- Second Chance Center: The goal of Second Chance Center, Inc. is to provide critical transition services and support to men and women after periods of incarceration. Second Chance Center offers clients multiple services to assist their transition to success.
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Incarceration Crisis in Colorado
Over the past 35 years, the state prison budget has exploded by almost 1288% and we’ve seen an unprecedented growth in the prison population.
People Impacted
When you combine the closing of mental health facilities with a war on drugs, you get an enormous ripple effect across our communities.
Public Safety That Works
We’re often ignoring alternative strategies that do work to prevent crime. For example, research shows that higher levels of household income are associated with lower rates of intimate partner violence against women.
Compromising Our Children’s Futures
The unprecedented growth in prison spending is one of the reasons that Colorado ranks at the bottom of states for public investment in education.