Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition
@ccjrc.bsky.social
Founded in 1999, our mission is to eliminate the overuse of the criminal legal system and advance community health and safety. We advocate and organize for public safety strategies that are holistic, effective, and just. ccjrc.org
Your Colorado Gives Day pledge powers advocacy, organizing, and bold policy work to build real safety across our state.
Colorado doesn’t need new prisons — it needs new possibilities. #ColoradoGivesDay #WaveofGenerosity
🔗http://coloradogives.org/organization/CCJRC
Colorado doesn’t need new prisons — it needs new possibilities. #ColoradoGivesDay #WaveofGenerosity
🔗http://coloradogives.org/organization/CCJRC
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Your Colorado Gives Day pledge powers advocacy, organizing, and bold policy work to build real safety across our state.
Colorado doesn’t need new prisons — it needs new possibilities. #ColoradoGivesDay #WaveofGenerosity
🔗http://coloradogives.org/organization/CCJRC
Colorado doesn’t need new prisons — it needs new possibilities. #ColoradoGivesDay #WaveofGenerosity
🔗http://coloradogives.org/organization/CCJRC
📺LIVE! Denver City Council is proposing and voting on amendments to the 2026 Denver Budget.
Councilmembers Torres, Gonzales-Gutierrez, Lewis & Parady are bringing forth an amendment for a Community Led Safety Grant Program! 🎉 denvergov.org/Government/A...
Councilmembers Torres, Gonzales-Gutierrez, Lewis & Parady are bringing forth an amendment for a Community Led Safety Grant Program! 🎉 denvergov.org/Government/A...
November 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
📺LIVE! Denver City Council is proposing and voting on amendments to the 2026 Denver Budget.
Councilmembers Torres, Gonzales-Gutierrez, Lewis & Parady are bringing forth an amendment for a Community Led Safety Grant Program! 🎉 denvergov.org/Government/A...
Councilmembers Torres, Gonzales-Gutierrez, Lewis & Parady are bringing forth an amendment for a Community Led Safety Grant Program! 🎉 denvergov.org/Government/A...
🚨 Denver! Vote NO on Referred Measure 2G.
Splitting Denver’s at-large City Council races into two separate contests would limit voter choice and invite political gamesmanship.
The fact that it’s backed by dark-money group One Main Street says it all.
Read more: www.axios.com/local/denver...
Splitting Denver’s at-large City Council races into two separate contests would limit voter choice and invite political gamesmanship.
The fact that it’s backed by dark-money group One Main Street says it all.
Read more: www.axios.com/local/denver...
Fight over at-large Denver City Council measures intensifies
A mailer arrived this week supporting the measure and backed by a dark money group.
www.axios.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
🚨 Denver! Vote NO on Referred Measure 2G.
Splitting Denver’s at-large City Council races into two separate contests would limit voter choice and invite political gamesmanship.
The fact that it’s backed by dark-money group One Main Street says it all.
Read more: www.axios.com/local/denver...
Splitting Denver’s at-large City Council races into two separate contests would limit voter choice and invite political gamesmanship.
The fact that it’s backed by dark-money group One Main Street says it all.
Read more: www.axios.com/local/denver...
CCJRC's Denver Campaign Coordinator, Kym Ray, testified before a full house at last night's City Council public hearing on Denver's 2026 Budget:
October 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
CCJRC's Denver Campaign Coordinator, Kym Ray, testified before a full house at last night's City Council public hearing on Denver's 2026 Budget:
📺LIVE! Tune in to the Denver City Council Public Hearing on the 2026 Budget. We're joining with community advocates across Denver to ask city council to prioritize funding for Community Led Safety!
➡️https://denver.granicus.com/player/camera/2
➡️https://denver.granicus.com/player/camera/2
October 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
📺LIVE! Tune in to the Denver City Council Public Hearing on the 2026 Budget. We're joining with community advocates across Denver to ask city council to prioritize funding for Community Led Safety!
➡️https://denver.granicus.com/player/camera/2
➡️https://denver.granicus.com/player/camera/2
Get Real, Denver! Community-led safety prevents violence before it occurs, and makes our neighborhoods safer and stronger.
Tonight, we're asking community to show up & show support for real community safety at the Denver City Council Budget Hearing. See you there!
Tonight, we're asking community to show up & show support for real community safety at the Denver City Council Budget Hearing. See you there!
October 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Get Real, Denver! Community-led safety prevents violence before it occurs, and makes our neighborhoods safer and stronger.
Tonight, we're asking community to show up & show support for real community safety at the Denver City Council Budget Hearing. See you there!
Tonight, we're asking community to show up & show support for real community safety at the Denver City Council Budget Hearing. See you there!
Today, elected leaders & community advocates joined @ccjrc1's #GetRealDenver campaign on the steps of the City & County Building. We’re calling for $5M for a Community-Led Safety Grant Program to fund prevention, intervention & victim support that stops harm before it starts.
October 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Today, elected leaders & community advocates joined @ccjrc1's #GetRealDenver campaign on the steps of the City & County Building. We’re calling for $5M for a Community-Led Safety Grant Program to fund prevention, intervention & victim support that stops harm before it starts.
Denver! We need you to show up at City Council on Monday at 5:30pm and tell our City Council to GET REAL!
Kym Ray sat down with Malik tha Martian this week to explain what our 2026 Denver budget campaign is all about and why funding community-led safety is so important.
Kym Ray sat down with Malik tha Martian this week to explain what our 2026 Denver budget campaign is all about and why funding community-led safety is so important.
October 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Denver! We need you to show up at City Council on Monday at 5:30pm and tell our City Council to GET REAL!
Kym Ray sat down with Malik tha Martian this week to explain what our 2026 Denver budget campaign is all about and why funding community-led safety is so important.
Kym Ray sat down with Malik tha Martian this week to explain what our 2026 Denver budget campaign is all about and why funding community-led safety is so important.
ICYMI: FOX31 spotlighted the Get Real Denver campaign and its push for the city to invest in community-led crime prevention, violence intervention, and victim support in Denver's 2026 budget. Watch the full story at kdvr.com/.../advocate...
October 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
ICYMI: FOX31 spotlighted the Get Real Denver campaign and its push for the city to invest in community-led crime prevention, violence intervention, and victim support in Denver's 2026 budget. Watch the full story at kdvr.com/.../advocate...
📺Tune in to KDVR FOX31 📷TONIGHT📷 at 4pm or 5pm to hear CCJRC's Kym Ray discuss the effort to include a Community Led Safety Grant Program in Denver's 2026 budget!
➡️Take action at getrealdenver.org/Action
➡️Take action at getrealdenver.org/Action
October 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
📺Tune in to KDVR FOX31 📷TONIGHT📷 at 4pm or 5pm to hear CCJRC's Kym Ray discuss the effort to include a Community Led Safety Grant Program in Denver's 2026 budget!
➡️Take action at getrealdenver.org/Action
➡️Take action at getrealdenver.org/Action
📢 Denver, it's time to Get Real about public safety!
We're urging Mayor Johnston and City Council to invest in what truly works. By empowering local organizations to tackle safety challenges right where they live, we can create genuinely safer communities.
We're urging Mayor Johnston and City Council to invest in what truly works. By empowering local organizations to tackle safety challenges right where they live, we can create genuinely safer communities.
October 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
📢 Denver, it's time to Get Real about public safety!
We're urging Mayor Johnston and City Council to invest in what truly works. By empowering local organizations to tackle safety challenges right where they live, we can create genuinely safer communities.
We're urging Mayor Johnston and City Council to invest in what truly works. By empowering local organizations to tackle safety challenges right where they live, we can create genuinely safer communities.
Join us on Monday 9/22 to pack the JBC hearing and say NO MORE PRISONS.
DOC wants $2.8M for 153 new private prison beds while Colorado cuts healthcare, housing & education.
For more on how you can take action: bit.ly/JBC_NoPriso...
#NoMorePrisons #copolitics
DOC wants $2.8M for 153 new private prison beds while Colorado cuts healthcare, housing & education.
For more on how you can take action: bit.ly/JBC_NoPriso...
#NoMorePrisons #copolitics
September 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Join us on Monday 9/22 to pack the JBC hearing and say NO MORE PRISONS.
DOC wants $2.8M for 153 new private prison beds while Colorado cuts healthcare, housing & education.
For more on how you can take action: bit.ly/JBC_NoPriso...
#NoMorePrisons #copolitics
DOC wants $2.8M for 153 new private prison beds while Colorado cuts healthcare, housing & education.
For more on how you can take action: bit.ly/JBC_NoPriso...
#NoMorePrisons #copolitics
📄The first draft of Denver’s 2026 budget is live. Join us in asking Mayor Johnston to go back to the drawing board and invest in strategies that:
🟢 Stop harm before it happens
🟠 Intervene early
🔵 Support victims
🟡 Reduce recidivism
▶️ www.GetRealDenver.org/Action
#GetRealDenver
🟢 Stop harm before it happens
🟠 Intervene early
🔵 Support victims
🟡 Reduce recidivism
▶️ www.GetRealDenver.org/Action
#GetRealDenver
September 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
📄The first draft of Denver’s 2026 budget is live. Join us in asking Mayor Johnston to go back to the drawing board and invest in strategies that:
🟢 Stop harm before it happens
🟠 Intervene early
🔵 Support victims
🟡 Reduce recidivism
▶️ www.GetRealDenver.org/Action
#GetRealDenver
🟢 Stop harm before it happens
🟠 Intervene early
🔵 Support victims
🟡 Reduce recidivism
▶️ www.GetRealDenver.org/Action
#GetRealDenver
✊🏿In the 1960s, Black voters in Louisiana sued & won to stop racist election practices. That right of action is under attack. The Colorado Voting Rights Act passed this year ensures that CO voters, including incarcerated voters, can defend their rights in court. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
The Importance of Letting Voters Defend Their Rights in Court
Courts have recognized a "private right of action" in the Voting Rights Act since the law’s inception.
www.brennancenter.org
June 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
✊🏿In the 1960s, Black voters in Louisiana sued & won to stop racist election practices. That right of action is under attack. The Colorado Voting Rights Act passed this year ensures that CO voters, including incarcerated voters, can defend their rights in court. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
⏰Colorado’s prison population is spiking as a result of the Polis administration's crackdown on technical parole violations. DOC is hiding the surge by holding people in jails & leaving their treatment beds empty—undermining efforts to manage the prison population.
www.axios.com/local/denver...
www.axios.com/local/denver...
Colorado's prison and jail population is spiking. Here's why.
The number of inmates in Colorado prisons and jails is spiking after the Polis administration began incarcerating more individuals for technical parole violations.
www.axios.com
June 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
⏰Colorado’s prison population is spiking as a result of the Polis administration's crackdown on technical parole violations. DOC is hiding the surge by holding people in jails & leaving their treatment beds empty—undermining efforts to manage the prison population.
www.axios.com/local/denver...
www.axios.com/local/denver...
📍CCJRC will be tabling this weekend at the Southern Colorado Juneteenth celebration at the Citadel Mall in Colorado Springs!
Come find us Friday (12–9 pm), Saturday (9 am–8 pm), and Sunday (10 am–8 pm).
✊🏿Let’s connect, build, and organize for freedom. #Juneteenth2025
Come find us Friday (12–9 pm), Saturday (9 am–8 pm), and Sunday (10 am–8 pm).
✊🏿Let’s connect, build, and organize for freedom. #Juneteenth2025
June 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
📍CCJRC will be tabling this weekend at the Southern Colorado Juneteenth celebration at the Citadel Mall in Colorado Springs!
Come find us Friday (12–9 pm), Saturday (9 am–8 pm), and Sunday (10 am–8 pm).
✊🏿Let’s connect, build, and organize for freedom. #Juneteenth2025
Come find us Friday (12–9 pm), Saturday (9 am–8 pm), and Sunday (10 am–8 pm).
✊🏿Let’s connect, build, and organize for freedom. #Juneteenth2025
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Today on Up to the Minute: a look behind the curtain at the day-to-day work of systems change, with Jennifer Dillon, Communications Coordinator for @ccjrc.bsky.social. Today at noon, 5pm, and 10pm… and on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
June 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Today on Up to the Minute: a look behind the curtain at the day-to-day work of systems change, with Jennifer Dillon, Communications Coordinator for @ccjrc.bsky.social. Today at noon, 5pm, and 10pm… and on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
🖊️CCJRC's priority bill SB25-190 has been signed into law. People leaving jail will now have better access to support, and long-overdue fixes to Special Needs Parole are finally here!
Thank you to sponsors Senator Matt Ball, @senadorajulie.bsky.social, Representatives Jennifer Bacon & Matthew Soper.
Thank you to sponsors Senator Matt Ball, @senadorajulie.bsky.social, Representatives Jennifer Bacon & Matthew Soper.
May 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
🖊️CCJRC's priority bill SB25-190 has been signed into law. People leaving jail will now have better access to support, and long-overdue fixes to Special Needs Parole are finally here!
Thank you to sponsors Senator Matt Ball, @senadorajulie.bsky.social, Representatives Jennifer Bacon & Matthew Soper.
Thank you to sponsors Senator Matt Ball, @senadorajulie.bsky.social, Representatives Jennifer Bacon & Matthew Soper.
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Veto alert! HB25-1147—Municipal Court Fairness—is in danger.
Extreme sentences. No counsel. Closed courts.
📞 Call or email Gov. Polis NOW.
📲 Take action: www.coloradofreedomfund.org/hb25-1147-si...
Extreme sentences. No counsel. Closed courts.
📞 Call or email Gov. Polis NOW.
📲 Take action: www.coloradofreedomfund.org/hb25-1147-si...
April 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Veto alert! HB25-1147—Municipal Court Fairness—is in danger.
Extreme sentences. No counsel. Closed courts.
📞 Call or email Gov. Polis NOW.
📲 Take action: www.coloradofreedomfund.org/hb25-1147-si...
Extreme sentences. No counsel. Closed courts.
📞 Call or email Gov. Polis NOW.
📲 Take action: www.coloradofreedomfund.org/hb25-1147-si...
🚨 We're hiring! Looking for a Denver Campaign Coordinator to lead local advocacy for criminal legal reform, racial equity, harm reduction, and REAL public safety — rooted in community power and reinvestment.
Know Denver? Passionate about change? Apply by April 17th. bit.ly/DenverCampaignCoordinator
Know Denver? Passionate about change? Apply by April 17th. bit.ly/DenverCampaignCoordinator
April 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
🚨 We're hiring! Looking for a Denver Campaign Coordinator to lead local advocacy for criminal legal reform, racial equity, harm reduction, and REAL public safety — rooted in community power and reinvestment.
Know Denver? Passionate about change? Apply by April 17th. bit.ly/DenverCampaignCoordinator
Know Denver? Passionate about change? Apply by April 17th. bit.ly/DenverCampaignCoordinator
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BREAKING: Gov. Polis is threatening to veto HB25-1147.
This bill brings fairness to Colorado’s courts—right now, people are getting more jail time just for being in municipal court.
Tell him: Sign the bill. bit.ly/SignHB1147
This bill brings fairness to Colorado’s courts—right now, people are getting more jail time just for being in municipal court.
Tell him: Sign the bill. bit.ly/SignHB1147
April 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
BREAKING: Gov. Polis is threatening to veto HB25-1147.
This bill brings fairness to Colorado’s courts—right now, people are getting more jail time just for being in municipal court.
Tell him: Sign the bill. bit.ly/SignHB1147
This bill brings fairness to Colorado’s courts—right now, people are getting more jail time just for being in municipal court.
Tell him: Sign the bill. bit.ly/SignHB1147
🎉Our priority bill HB1214 passed through House Judiciary! Thanks to bill sponsor Rep. Clifford & to Reps. Mabrey, Carter, Bacon, Espenoza, Garcia & Zokaie for voting YES to provide better sentencing info to courts, expand recovery & housing support, and remove barriers to community corrections!
March 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
🎉Our priority bill HB1214 passed through House Judiciary! Thanks to bill sponsor Rep. Clifford & to Reps. Mabrey, Carter, Bacon, Espenoza, Garcia & Zokaie for voting YES to provide better sentencing info to courts, expand recovery & housing support, and remove barriers to community corrections!
🎉Our priority bill SB190 passed Senate Judiciary and moves to the floor! Thank you to bill sponsor Senator Matt Ball, and to Judiciary Committee members Senators @senadorajulie.bsky.social, Weissman, @lindseyforco.bsky.social, and Roberts for voting YES to improve reentry & Special Needs Parole!
March 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
🎉Our priority bill SB190 passed Senate Judiciary and moves to the floor! Thank you to bill sponsor Senator Matt Ball, and to Judiciary Committee members Senators @senadorajulie.bsky.social, Weissman, @lindseyforco.bsky.social, and Roberts for voting YES to improve reentry & Special Needs Parole!
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A BIG thank you to the HB25-1147 Coalition!
More than 50 organizations are fighting to rein in excessive sentences, expand access to legal counsel, and bring accountability to municipal courts.
Now, it’s on to the Senate. Join the fight here: coloradofreedomfund.org/hb25-1147
More than 50 organizations are fighting to rein in excessive sentences, expand access to legal counsel, and bring accountability to municipal courts.
Now, it’s on to the Senate. Join the fight here: coloradofreedomfund.org/hb25-1147
March 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A BIG thank you to the HB25-1147 Coalition!
More than 50 organizations are fighting to rein in excessive sentences, expand access to legal counsel, and bring accountability to municipal courts.
Now, it’s on to the Senate. Join the fight here: coloradofreedomfund.org/hb25-1147
More than 50 organizations are fighting to rein in excessive sentences, expand access to legal counsel, and bring accountability to municipal courts.
Now, it’s on to the Senate. Join the fight here: coloradofreedomfund.org/hb25-1147
Reposted by Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition
The stories shared in this article are exactly why we at @ccjrc.bsky.social do what we do—they inspire and drive us forward.
Thank you to @burness.bsky.social and @bolts.bsky.social for sharing the impact voting has on every Coloradan, no matter where they lay their head at night. #coleg
Thank you to @burness.bsky.social and @bolts.bsky.social for sharing the impact voting has on every Coloradan, no matter where they lay their head at night. #coleg
A man incarcerated in Colorado cast his first-ever ballot in November, thanks to the state’s new jail voting law. “It would be one of my top five experiences, being able to vote.”
boltsmag.org/jail-vo...
boltsmag.org/jail-vo...
Jail Voting Soars in Colorado After State Mandates Polling Places in County Lockups
Local officials had claimed they were already giving detained people ballot access, but the first-in-the-nation mandate forced their hands and increased turnout across the state.
boltsmag.org
March 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The stories shared in this article are exactly why we at @ccjrc.bsky.social do what we do—they inspire and drive us forward.
Thank you to @burness.bsky.social and @bolts.bsky.social for sharing the impact voting has on every Coloradan, no matter where they lay their head at night. #coleg
Thank you to @burness.bsky.social and @bolts.bsky.social for sharing the impact voting has on every Coloradan, no matter where they lay their head at night. #coleg