Thank you to PhoneJockey for alerting me to this:
State, victims clash over whereabouts of notorious criminals
https://www.9news.com/article/news/...ereabouts-of-notorious-criminals/73-434296319
"Colorado prison officials have transferred scores of killers and rapists to other states and refused to tell victims and their families where they are -- despite a constitutional amendment and state law that were designed to guarantee those answers, a 9Wants to Know investigation found.
Instead, state Department of Corrections officials and Gov. John Hickenlooper have repeatedly refused to disclose the whereabouts of inmates to victims.
The result: more than 100 Colorado inmates -- including some of the state’s most notorious killers -- are being held in what is essentially now a secret prison system.
The findings of our 9Wants to Know investigation into the system frustrated a former legislator who helped write the Victim Rights Act, passed by Colorado voters in 1992 and codified into state law the next year.
“I do not understand how a bureaucratic decision can override a victim’s constitutional rights,” said Jeanne Faatz, a longtime Republican legislator who was the prime sponsor of the victim rights law.""
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“I didn’t think anything of it -- until they had the hearing for the theater shooting,” Christine Ridgeway said, grandmother of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway, who was kidnapped, murdered and dismembered in 2012. “They (DOC) said they moved (James) Holmes out of state and wouldn’t tell them where he’s at. I’m thinking, they did never tell me where they sent Austin Sigg. That’s part of my victim’s rights. At least I thought that was my victim’s right. I should know.”
Sigg, then 17, pleaded guilty to killing Jessica, who was on her way to school when he abducted her.
“Jessica was kind of like our cohesive little light,” Ridgeway said. “She was in everything, she was doing everything and was willing to try anything. If you said let’s go to New Mexico tomorrow, she’s like, OK. She was the light of my life.”
After his sentencing in 2013, Sigg and was transferred out of state as part of the Interstate Corrections Compact.
At the time of his transfer, DOC told 9NEWS Sigg’s location was not available as part of the ICC, for his and staff safety. At the time, 9NEWS and the Ridgeways didn’t question DOC’s position.
Three years later, Hoover started rocking the boat.
“It makes me upset that I have to think about where the perpetrator of the murder of my child is before I can travel anywhere,” Ridgeway said."
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Austin Sigg, who killed Jessica Ridgeway, moved to out-of-state prison
https://www.denverpost.com/2014/06/...essica-ridgeway-moved-to-out-of-state-prison/
*ad wall, if someone can please help quote, tia.
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Why the governor says the 'secret prisons' bill didn't get a public signing
"If I disapprove of a bill, just so we're clear, I don't sign it. I can let it go unsigned into law. When I sign bills, it means I approve them."
https://www.9news.com/article/news/...-bill-didnt-get-a-public-signing/73-545538316
""It would have been nice if we were there. If he made a big deal about it. If we would’ve gotten pens like they get at bill signings," said Christine Ridgeway, grandmother of Jessica Ridgeway.
At public bill signings, the Governor frequently signs his name with multiple pens and gives the pens as souvenirs."
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So, where is this ?
That's why I say someone should go over there who has already been over there and can "handle it", know what I mean.
