Senate Judiciary Committee takes up SB176 on March 14, 2011, a bill by Senator Morgan Carroll, seeking to discuss and re-examine current practices in Colorado prisons of solitary confinement of mentally ill and developmentally disabled inmates.

Though inmates have reading material and tv, they don't get social skill rehab or therapy or diagnostic imaging to discover if their real problem is a brain injury.

Senator Irene Aguilar discusses recent legislation in this Town Hall recording in a Friends Church.

The Asset Bill and the Healthcare Coop proposal are among the important subjects in this 92 minute recording with Sen. Aguilar, who is also a medical doctor and mother.

Also, Sen. Aguilar has proposed a bill to add disability representatives to three state boards, including housing. Sen. Aguilar is mother of a developmentally disabled child and knows systems impacting the state's disabled populations.

Senate Bill 176 footage from the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing March 14, 2011.

Senator Morgan Carroll introduced this bill to discuss solitary confinement as a method of controlling the increasing population of prison inmates who are mentally ill or developmentally disabled. These two groups have increased from 15 percent of the Colorado prison population to 37 percent in the past few years, suggesting Colorado's treatment of the DD and mentally ill contributes to this phenomena.

Senator Morgan Carroll of Aurora opens a discussion with Senate Bill 176, seeking to re-examine the practice of solitary confinement with mentally ill and developmentally disabled inmates. Several guards assaulted by inmates, both mentally ill and not, testify in the Senate Judiciary Hearing March 14, 2011.

Challenge School Team B Green Presentation

Craig Hall and Vernon Martin author of "Master the Culture and Conquer the Culture" discuss issues with Terrance Roberts and Gerald Wright on their involvement in gang activity and the circumstances that comes with that behavior. Then ultimately their transformation in starting and participating in a non-profit organization called "Prodigal Son" to become teachers and leaders in the community. These are men who truly "Raised their self image" to serve our youth who are at-risk in the community.

Spiritual Truth from The House of Yahweh

Spiritual Truth from The House of Yahweh