Sentencing Guidelines Could Be Changing
January 19th, 2016 by Mike Vasilinda
A Workshop by the Senate Criminal Justice Committee today sought to reduce the state’s prison population by a third over three years. Committee Chair Senator Greg Evers says the state is institutionalizing far too many non violent offenders because we’re made at them, even though they pose no threat to society.
“You know, we’re locking too many folks up and at what cost. And it’s actually increasing the fact that they’ll actually come back to prison for more of a severe crime than what they were first put in their for” says Evers.
The State currently spends just over two billion a year on the prison system.
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