Governor will veto it. She points out fifty community groups and organizations have endorsed the legislation. A large chunk of Colorado's prison expansion can be attributed to the war on drugs. When asked whether it would be easier to pass a drug decriminalization initiative via the ballot box then trying to pass a prison moratorium bill through a conservative legislature worried about seeming soft on crime, Donner said her group was looking into supporting an initiative like the one passed in Arizona. We could bang our heads trying to pass this legislation for a long time.
Voters are more sympathetic.
Apparently, voters aren't worried about being soft on crime. There are other prison moratorium groups campaigning around the country including a California group that helps local communities say no to new prison construction and a New York group that is fighting that state's punitive Rockefeller Drug Laws.