Join Colorado Radio for Justice for a Launch & Listening Party for our new podcast, HABITUAL.

Tickets are FREE but limited - please be sure to REGISTER here!

HABITUAL is a documentary podcast by Colorado Radio for Justice that pulls back the curtain on Colorado’s three-strikes law, as told by someone who’s survived it. The statute is one of the most powerful and least examined tools in the state’s criminal-legal system; it labels certain people as “habitual criminals” and transforms their prison sentences to triple, quadruple, or even virtual life sentences. Over 500 people in Colorado prisons today carry that label, with their futures and their families still defined by it.

Herbert Alexander was once incarcerated under this law. He fought successfully to get out of prison. Now, as a Colorado Radio for Justice producer, Herbert shares his story, alongside CRJ co-hosts Seth Ready and Ryan Conarro. As they unfold Herbert’s singular journey through the habitual law, they take up a chilling investigation of the statute’s roots, consequences, and costs - from exponential sentences, to pressured plea bargains, to the shocking, little-known origin story of this law and others like it across the United States.

In five episodes, HABITUAL weaves firsthand accounts from people sentenced as habitual criminals; expert insights from legal scholars, legislators, and reform advocates; and raw, intimate conversations with families and communities living in its shadow.

For more on HABITUAL, visit here.

Here’s everything you need to know for the CRJ Listening Party + Community Celebration:

When is this happening?

Wednesday, April 29.

6pm - doors open, beverages and bites available for purchase

6:30pm - Listening Party program begins

Where is this happening?

Sie Film Center, 2510 East Colfax Avenue

Where can I park?

Free validated parking is available in the attached garage above the theater. Access the garage from Columbine & Elizabeth Streets. Please validate your parking ticket at the Sie box office when you enter the lobby. In addition to the garage, limited street parking is available,

What should I wear?

Come as you are! That said, the CRJ team is getting fun-formal for this one. Have a gown, a new blazer or necktie, a particular hat? Come show it off!

Do I have to pay for a ticket?

No! This is a free community event! Tickets are limited though - please be sure to RSVP here.

What’s going to happen at the event?

So much great stuff!

6pm - Doors open; grab a sip and a bite and mingle!

6:30pm - Our Listening Party begins!

Radio countdown: we launch the broadcast of Episode 1 of HABITUAL on CRJ’s airwaves
Listen to selections from HABITUAL
View video clips of the process of making HABITUAL, produced by documentary film team Julia Hoppock and Brynmore Williams
Real-time release: watch and celebrate as we drop the podcast on all podcast platforms
Talkback: a community conversation with some of the key voices featured in HABITUAL

Tell me more about food and drink.

Chef Pat will be providing meals for purchase! Carne asada bowls ($17) and mushroom asada vegetarian bowls ($12). Beverages and other small bites are available for purchase from the FilmCenter bar and FilmCenter concessions counter.

I have a question or an idea and I need to talk to someone!

Let’s find each other at the party! Come say hey to our 3 Co-Directors: Herbert Alexander, Ryan Conarro, and Seth Ready, and our team of Associate Producers and Featured Hosts. If you want to reach us before the event starts, zip a note to Ryan, and he’ll do his best to get back to you: ryan@radioforjustice.org.

I would like to donate, even though the ticket to this event is free.

Thank you! We appreciate you considering kicking in a donation to help us with this podcast launch and with our upcoming new programming! If you'd like to donate, you can do so here: https://givebutter.com/crj-2026 ... Thank you in advance!

This event is supported in part by Colorado Media Project, a funding collective fiscally sponsored by the Rose Community Foundation.

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