Personal Observations of Death Row
For some reason, I have never written about my ministry at Sterling Correctional Facility (above) on the Eastern Plains of Colorado. It's an extremely high-security prison in Sterling, CO. I was once stationed as a Catholic priest here about 10 years ago. Sterling contained Colorado's criminals who were on death-row. However, two years ago (to the week) Governor Polis abolished the death penalty. This was obviously several years after I left the facility. (Notice that the Federal-crimes death-row criminals are located in Colorado at infamous facility called Supermax.) In any case, I used to go to the high-security Sterling Correctional Facility a few times a month to hear confessions, lead [...]