{"id":68997,"date":"2017-08-08T11:25:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T17:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-felony-dui-law-requiring-jail-time-begins-soon\/"},"modified":"2017-08-08T17:25:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T17:25:55","slug":"colorado-felony-dui-law-requiring-jail-time-begins-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-felony-dui-law-requiring-jail-time-begins-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado felony DUI law requiring jail time begins soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Colorado law goes into effect this week requiring anyone convicted of felony driving under the influence to spend time behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>The Denver Post reports (http:\/\/dpo.st\/2wEEZ2N ) the law that starts Wednesday closes a loophole that has allowed people to avoid being locked up while others receive lengthy prison sentences.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation was passed by lawmakers earlier this year. It requires felony drunken drivers to serve 90 to 180 days in jail if a judge decides to give them probation. If a work release program is available and is part of an offender\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sentence, that person is required to serve 120 days to two years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado enacted a law in 2015 that made a fourth and all subsequent DUI offenses a felony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Colorado law goes into effect this week requiring anyone convicted of felony driving under the influence to spend time behind bars. The Denver Post reports (http:\/\/dpo.st\/2wEEZ2N ) the law that starts Wednesday closes a loophole that has allowed people to avoid being locked up while others receive lengthy prison sentences. The legislation was passed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[924,202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-68997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-alcohol","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68997"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=68997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}