Sliding door of Denver County Jail in Denver on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. The Denver Sheriff Department in partnership with the Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles launched the DMV2GO Program for the Denver County Jail. The pilot program will help people successfully transition upon release from custody.
The standards were approved late last year, and a law enacting them and establishing an oversight process was passed by the legislature in May. Gov. Jared Polis then signed it Monday. The law was sponsored by Democratic Reps. Judy Amabile and Lorena Garcia and Sens. James Coleman and Rhonda Fields. “The framework that we have created will serve as the foundation for more work going forward to continue improving our jails, both for the sake of people experiencing incarceration and for the staff who work in the jails,” Meghan Baker, an attorney with Disability Law Colorado who led the standards-drafting process, said in a statement Tuesday.