Thank You Sponsors!
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
530pm – 8pm
Mile High Station in Denver, Colorado
On Wednesday September 10, 2025, we will celebrate our sixteenth annual night of fun and fundraising with an open bar, delicious food, and a magnificent silent auction at Mile High Station in Denver, Colorado. We would like to invite you to attend and/or become a sponsor of this event. More details will be available soon!
CCJRC has been successfully advocating for sensible criminal justice reform in Colorado for almost two decades. We were founded in 1999 when Senator Dorothy Rupert, in alliance with Representative Penfield Tate, introduced legislation calling for a three-year halt on prison expansion and the creation of a task force on sentencing reform.
The Rupert Tate Game Changer Award honors its two co-founders and their prescience in challenging the criminal justice status quo in Colorado. This year’s award is being presented to two incredibly deserving recipients:
Legislative Inside – with facilitators Jeanne Segil and Jamie Ray
And
Friends and Family of the “Save Skyline and Beacon” Campaign

Thank You Sponsors!
Platinum Sponsor
Rocky Mountain Health Plans – United Health Care
Game Changer Sponsors
Latino Coalition for Community Leadership
Colorado Access
Signal Behavioral Health
Supporting Sponsors
Johnson & Klein Law
The Noble Law Firm, LLC
The Reentry Initiative
Contributing Sponsors
Unbreakable Ministries
Built to Recover
A Perfect Delivery
Maxted Law, LLC
Capitol Success Group
Second Chance Center
Steadman Group
Hazelbrook Sober Living
CaseMGR Solutions
Denver Elections
Lord Law, LLC
Advocate Sponsors
Peer Assistance Services
Harm Reduction Action Center
Freedom Fighter Sponsors
Norm Mueller and Christine Murphy
Whole Body Harmony
Killmer & Lane
Elizabeth and Evan Anderman
Jim Laurie and Jane Vennard
Anonymous
Rupert – Tate Sponsor
Phil Cherner and Laurie Schoder
Korey Wise Innocence Project
Stephen Raher
Justice Sponsors
End Slavery Colorado
Hope Homes
Common Cause
The Circles Project
Alliance for Community and Justice Innovation
Hans Meyer Law Firm, LLC
Empowerment
Beacon Collaborative
Stand For Children
Unbound Authors
Becca Butler-Dines
Spero Justice Center
Pete and Lynn Lee
Stephen and Gwennan Holloway
It Takes a Village
Enduring Connections
Evinco Strategies
Lucienne Ohanian
Rustin Tonn
JFM Consulting
Kristen Baker
Lifeline
A HUGE thank you to all those who donated to the Silent Auction!
Help make a difference! Become a supporter of CCJRC.

Incarceration Crisis in Colorado
Over the past 35 years, the state prison budget has exploded by almost 1288% and we’ve seen an unprecedented growth in the prison population.

People Impacted
When you combine the closing of mental health facilities with a war on drugs, you get an enormous ripple effect across our communities.

Public Safety That Works
We’re often ignoring alternative strategies that do work to prevent crime. For example, research shows that higher levels of household income are associated with lower rates of intimate partner violence against women.

Compromising Our Children’s Futures
The unprecedented growth in prison spending is one of the reasons that Colorado ranks at the bottom of states for public investment in education.