Photo of Jose Rodriguez by Angela K. Evans

Colorado’s innovative approach to health care coordination helps inmates make it on the outside

Jose Rodriguez can’t remember a time he’s been out of prison this long. “I’m actually pretty proud of that,” he says sitting in the cafeteria of Boulder Bridge House’s Ready to Work building. Released almost a year ago from the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility in Cañon City, Rodriguez, now 35, has been in and out of correctional facilities since he became involved with gangs at a young age.

“They usually gave you $100 and sent you on your way,” he says about other times he’s been released. But this time it was different.

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