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2021 Colorado Code
Title 17 - Corrections
Article 40 - Colorado Diagnostic Program
§ 17-40-102. Program Established
Universal Citation: CO Code § 17-40-102 (2021)
- There is hereby established the Colorado diagnostic program, referred to in this article as the “program”.
- The primary function and purpose of the program shall be to provide a diagnostic examination and evaluation of all offenders sentenced by the courts of this state, so that each such offender may be assigned to a correctional institution or a program established pursuant to article 27.7 of this title which has the type of security and, to the extent possible, appropriate programs of education, employment, and treatment available, which are designed to accomplish maximum rehabilitation of such offender and to prepare an offender for placement into as productive an employment as possible following imprisonment.
History. Source: L. 77: Entire title R&RE, p. 948, § 10, effective August 1. L. 78: (2) amended, p. 357, § 4, effective April 27. L. 90: (2) amended, p. 965, § 2, effective June 7.
Editor's note:
This section is similar to former § 27-40-102 as it existed prior to 1977.
ANNOTATIONSection does not mandate that a particular classification be given, and accordingly does not confer a liberty interest. Klein v. Pyle, 767 F. Supp. 215 (D. Colo. 1991 ).
Applied in Ramos v. Lamm, 485 F. Supp. 122 (D. Colo. 1979 ); People ex rel. Gallagher v. District Court, 632 P.2d 1009 (Colo. 1981).
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