Conservatives join push to roll back mandatory prison sentences
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[quote]A grassroots effort to roll back mandatory prison sentences -- based on such conservative principles as less government and personal responsibility -- appears to be gaining momentum by winning changes in several states and following a similar trend in Washington.
The effort is being led in part by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, which spearheaded efforts in 2007 to reform its home state’s criminal justice policy.
Those efforts, in turn, led several years ago to the foundation starting the Right on Crime Project.
The project has since been part of recent, successful efforts in Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and South Carolina to reform their systems through such changes as reducing penalties for low-level drug possessions; expanding the use of time- and cost-efficient drug courts; using money once earmarked for prisons to improve law-enforcement strategies and expanding community-based programs for offenders, including treatment.[/quote]
i can get behind this
I believe mandatory sentences should exist for very severe crimes, but the vast majority should be up to the judge.
[QUOTE=sgman91;42351252]I believe mandatory sentences should exist for very severe crimes, but the vast majority should be up to the judge.[/QUOTE]
The fact that drug offenders, even possession ones, are sometimes sentenced to longer punishments than murderers upsets me.
wow maybe something can get accomplished?
[editline]29th September 2013[/editline]
na just kidding, some dick is going to come around and throw a box of wrenches at it and then sue the bill for being infront of the box of wrenches
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