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CT: Major Crime Bill OK'd By House

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Major Crime Bill OK'd By House By Ted Mann, The Day Published on 4/26/2008 in Home »State »State News Hartford - The House of Representatives approved the legislature's major crime bill Friday, doubling and tripling sentencing requirements for repeat violent criminals and dedicating nearly $10 million for improvements to the justice system. Passage of the bill, over Republican attempts to amend it and an appeal by a small band of dissenting Democrats to scrap it altogether, marks the second time in four months that legislators have tried to increase penalties on a small swath of the state's most violent and incorrigible criminals. The House overwhelmingly approved the bill, 128-12, with mostly urban and minority lawmakers in opposition. A spokesman for Republican Gov...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 29, 2008 (boomark / email).