The Colorado Department of Corrections website describes the relatively lenient punishment as "a sentencing or placement alternative, in lieu of prison incarceration,
for felony offenders."
This doesn't rise to this

in Colorado?
In September, Samuel Robert Michael, 28, pleaded guilty to one count of each vehicular assault resulting in death, vehicular homicide, DUI, careless driving resulting in injury, and careless driving causing significant bodily injury to a vulnerable road user,