“Visitation is rehabilitation”: Lawmakers push to recognize right to visit for prison inmates in Colorado
Colorado lawmakers are trying to make it a right rather than a privilege for inmates in the state’s prisons to receive visitation. Now, inmates in Colorado’s 19 state-run prisons can have their visitation privilege revoked if they violate the Department of Corrections’ rules, which can include infractions such as failing to work. House Bill 1013, if passed, would specify that visitation can be limited only when necessary for routine operations or safety.
