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[FoxtArt]

Fremont County (with Florence and Canon City and Penrose) has something like 16 prisons - # is probably off after all these years - and more than 50% of their economy is based on those prisons. AFAIK the state DOC isn't paying awesome their either, and the local LEO's were having starting wages of $15.75/h last I checked (~ 3 years ago). You might have job security there, but it comes at a bad price. It makes things very abnormal when half the town is quite literally a prison guard, and another huge portion is families of incarcerated - the result is not cliche Colorado small town life. ETA: There's also a long history of local corruption in the press there if you do your google searches. Some of it is more than just foam on a beer - botched homicides, deputies absconding with murder evidence, threatening locals if they report to CBI, stuff like that...