Josh Penry (pictured here) wasn't a happy man at the legislative hearing on parole policy December 8, and that's probably a good thing.
Penry, the Fruita Republican state senator who takes a back seat to no one in his tough-on-crime posturing, has been hollering about the supposedly alarming increase in early release, better known as discretionary parole, among state inmates under Governor Bill Ritter's watch -- the subject of my earlier blog, "Pandering Over Parole at the Statehouse." But a re
Governor Bill Ritter's modest proposal to parole hundreds of inmates a few weeks or months before their mandatory release date, thereby cutting millions from the state budget, has become the political whipping boy for his most opportunistic critics, from GOP legislators to Weld County District Attorney (and Senate candidate) Ken Buck to the hand-wringing editorial board over at the Denver Post.
But nobody has stomped on the issue with more enthusiasm than gubernatorial opponent Scott Mc
