Legislative panel to consider sentencing changes
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Published: December 14, 2010 at 7:45 am
A legislative committee meets Tuesday to consider making recommendations on changes to Arizona’s criminal sentencing laws.
The House Study Committee on Sentencing was formed to evaluate the effectiveness of sentencing laws and make findings and recommendations to legislative leaders for possible consideration during the regular session.
The committee’s chairman has said ideas being discussed include giving judges more discretion and reducing the current “truth in sentencing” requirement that most offenders serve at least 85 percent of their sentences.
But the topic is controversial, with some lawmakers saying they want no part of any recommendations to make the laws more lenient.
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December 14th, 2010 at 9:43 am
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December 14th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Good idea. It is time to take another look at the system that has been created.
December 14th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
We may not want to change sentencing guidlines , but are we ready to fund prisons to the detriment of other programs, IE. investment in the future, Eduation.
Why is we are ready to let kids drop through the cracks, and spend 30K a year to keep them in prison. But we are not ready to educate them to get get good productive jobs?
Joe