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Proposition 128 Parole Eligibility for Crimes of Violence / PROPOSICIÓN 128 Elegibilidad para la libertad condicional por delitos de violencia

This measure would require any person convicted and sentenced for second degree murder, first degree assault, first degree kidnapping unless the first degree kidnapping is a class 1 felony, first degree arson, first degree burglary, or aggravated robbery, committed on or after July 1, 2004, but before Jan. 1, 2025, to serve 85% of the sentence imposed before being eligible for parole. Persons with a previous conviction of a violent crime would have to serve the full sentence before being eligible for parole.Crimes include murder, sexual assault, aggravated robbery, and serious cases of assault, kidnapping, arson and burglary. An estimated 220 individuals per year are sentenced to prison for crimes of violence and currently serve an average of about 23 years in prison, which will increase under the measure.FISCAL IMPACT Increases state spending in two ways: In the short term, it requires one-time computer system updates to the Department of Corrections’ case management system, estimated at $12K. Beginning in approximately 20 years, state spending will increase due to the measure’s increase in the percentage of prison sentences that must be served. Actual costs will likely increase with inflation and depend on offender behavior and decisions by the State Board of Parole.Click here to view a LWV Overview of all statewide Ballot Issues.Click here to read the LWV Informational website page for this ballot issue.Ballot Language: Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning parole eligibility for an offender convicted of certain crimes, and, in connection therewith, requiring an offender who is convicted of second degree murder; first degree assault; class 2 felony kidnapping; sexual assault; first degree arson; first degree burglary; or aggravated robbery committed on or after January 1, 2025, to serve 85 percent of the sentence imposed before being eligible for parole, and requiring an offender convicted of any such crime committed on or after January 1, 2025, who was previously convicted of any two crimes of violence, not just those crimes enumerated in this measure, to serve the full sentence imposed before beginning to serve parole?Campaign finance information for this ballot can be found here: https://www.opensecrets.org/ballot-measures/CO/2024/59369630/summary

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Requires a person convicted of certain crimes of violence to serve at least 85 percent of their sentence in prison before being eligible for discretionary parole or earned time reductions, and make a person convicted of a third or subsequent crime of violence ineligible for earned time or discretionary parole.
Keeps the current requirement that a person convicted of certain crimes of violence serve 75 percent of their sentence in prison before being eligible for discretionary parole, minus earned time for progressing in personal, professional, or educational programs. Oppopents: Coloradans for Smart Justice