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Colorado lawmakers sign off on prison funding after delay, but renew demand for overcrowding plan

Colorado lawmakers voted Wednesday to send millions of dollars to the state’s overcrowded prison system, one week after a key committee rejected the funds and demanded that Gov. Jared Polis provide a plan to release more eligible inmates.

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