January 20, 2012 - The Denver Post

The Department of Corrections is transferring 321 inmates out of administrative segregation following a new directive by the department's executive director.

Executive Director Tom Clements acknowledged that the state's prisons relied too heavily on administrative segregation. He said one of the reasons it should be reduced is because 97 percent of all offenders will some day be released.

"Our efforts to ease an offender's transition from administrative segregation to eventual release into the community should also reduce recidivism," Clements said in a news release Friday. Continue reading...