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Why do people continue to die underneath the elbows, knees and bodies of officers...

PRONE: Facedown and handcuffed is no way to die, yet it keeps happening over and over again 9Wants to Know spent a year in search of an answer to a question: Why do people continue to die underneath the elbows, knees and bodies of officers?

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Tristan Gorman, a lobbyist for the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar, thought SB 12 “would have invested a modest amount of money in actual prevention,” she said. “Why wouldn’t we at least try that after the failure and suffering caused by decades of mass incarceration?”

Colorado Session Starts with Familiar Setback for Criminal Justice Reformers A proposed pilot program to provide cash aid to formerly incarcerated people died quickly in the state Senate, which was already a graveyard for progressive ambitions last year.