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CO: 1,361 priosn employees live in Pueblo Co.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Pueblo attracts majority of prison workers Department of Corrections records show that 1,361 employees live in Pueblo County, while 1,252 reside in Fremont County. By DENNIS DARROW THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN August 20, 2008 03:10 am Of the 6,183 state Department of Corrections employees in Colorado, nearly half make their homes in Pueblo and Fremont counties, according to state personnel records. Pueblo County ranks No. 1 in the state with 1,361 DOC workers, based on a ZIP code search of the correction department's employee home addresses, provided by the agency at the request of The Pueblo Chieftain. Fremont County ranks No. 2 with 1,252 workers. The heavy concentration of DOC workers in the two counties is by far the largest in the state...continue to full post

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