Photo by Randy Sunderland

Bob Marshall pilots a raft down the Gunnison River during The Conservation Center’s annual river awareness float trip.

Because of declining prison populations, the closure of some prisons in the state of Colorado looms on the horizon. The Delta County Correctional Center (DCC), along with 20 other Colorado Department of Corrections facilities, has been the subject of a prison utilization study that "identifies the most appropriate and cost-effective uses of the available public and private inmate beds."

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