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A majority of Colorado residents support sweeping legal reforms that would reduce long prison sentences for juveniles convicted of violent crimes and require them to be housed separately from adults, according to a newly released poll.
The results of the poll, paid for by Denver’s Pendulum Juvenile Justice, could help fuel a ballot drive for 2006 that would tackle such changes.
Sixty-two percent of those polled favor allowing judges, instead of prosecutors, to decide whether juveniles should be tried as adults.
The poll of 501 likely voters, conducted in August by political consultant Ridder- Braden, has a margin of error of 4.38 percentage points.
