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"Arizona mandatory-sentencing laws targeted"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this article about a debate over budget-driven sentencing reform talk among legislators in Arizona.  Here are excerpts: A GOP lawmaker on Wednesday vowed to propose legislation next year that would give Arizona judges more discretion when sentencing criminals, but another promised to block it. Rep. Cecil Ash, R-Mesa, who chairs a state legislative committee studying prison sentencing, said the bill would seek to loosen mandatory-sentencing laws, provide more just punishment and save Arizona money.  Mandatory-sentencing laws adopted in the 1990s in Arizona and across the nation have "tied the hands of judges" and left Arizonans paying millions of dollars to imprison non-violent criminals, he said......continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 18, 2010 (boomark / email).