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Connecticut getting serious about a serious sentencing commission

By Douglas A. Berman

This local news piece reports on another state getting serious about creating a permanent sentencing commission.  Here are the basics (with a notable guidelines twist):A panel of experts is expected to recommend that the state form a permanent commission to study sentencing in criminal courts, racial disparities in prisons and other issues.  The panel, a temporary task force created by the state legislature, will make dozens of recommendations when it releases its final report this month. Among them will be a recommendation that Connecticut join 26 states that have permanent bodies to examine criminal justice.... A permanent commission has almost unanimous support, as long as it would not have the power to set up sentencing guidelines that judges and many attorneys oppose...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 04, 2008 (boomark / email).