Colorado’s prisons and jails are overflowing. What’s being done to address it?

David Carrillo is getting ready for a college class at his Loveland home. He teaches economics to incarcerated students.

“They are introduced to a world beyond what they’ve known for a very, very long — not just for a very long time, probably ever,” he said.

The 51-year-old served time nearly three decades in various Colorado prisons for his involvement in a 1993 murder. He became one of the first incarcerated professors to teach other incarcerated students.

Now free, Carrillo still teaches students on the inside at Adams State University and Red Rocks Community College, but overcrowding in state prisons has made it harder to keep classes going. They’re often canceled, and students face obstacles just to get there.

“If you could imagine: you live in your bathroom and now they put in an