Colorado’s prisons must reform their use of metal restraints on mentally ill inmates in the coming four years under a new bill signed into law Tuesday regulating a practice that one lawmaker likened to torture.
The bill gives the Corrections Department a multi-year runway to conform to the standards, a change from the more immediate timeline that legislators had first proposed. Rep. Judy Amabile, a Boulder Democrat and the bill’s sponsor, said she learned that the agency was planning to conform to the standards anyway as part of a national accreditation process and decided to allow the agency to stick to a longer timeline.
“I think we’re going to stop some people from getting abused,” she said of the new law. “I think going to be more thoughtful going forward, even before they get the accreditation because they can’t just stop overnight doing what they’re doing. They’re going to have to move in that direction now, and they know that people are watching.”
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