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Quaker group seeks revamp of state’s ‘truth-in-sentencing’ laws

Ben Giles//November 19, 2018//[read_meter]

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Quaker group seeks revamp of state’s ‘truth-in-sentencing’ laws

Quaker group seeks revamp of state’s ‘truth-in-sentencing’ laws

Ben Giles//November 19, 2018//[read_meter]

A Quaker organization claims to have bipartisan support for a bill that would upend Arizona’s truth-in-sentencing laws, which requires Arizona inmates to serve at least 85 percent of their court-imposed...

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Tags: truth-in-sentencing, prisoners, Republican, inmates, American Friends Service Committee, democrat, corrections, Joe Watson, Quaker

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