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Highlights of a Pew Center study on Colorado’s correctional system:
— One in 29 adults in Colorado was incarcerated, on probation or on parole in 2007. That figure was one in 102 in 1982.
— 38,273 were in state and federal prisons or jails in 2007; 89,913 were on probation or parole.
— The state spent $596.4 million on prisons in 2008, up from $427.1 million in 2003.
— The state spent $52.6 million on probation in 2008, up from $28.5 million in 2003. The state spent $34.7 million parole, up from $18.3 million in 2003.
— The state spent $76.5 a day per inmate in 2008, $13.28 a day spent supervising people on parole and $3.52 on supervising those on probation.
