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Prosecutors win one round of the sentencing reform debate in Indiana

By Douglas A. Berman

This interesting new story from Indiana, headlined "Daniels-backed prison reform is dealt a blow by prosecutors," spotlights how readily a legislature can morph a sentence-reducing reform proposal into a sentence-enhancing reform proposal. Here are the details: A criminal justice reform bill that Gov. Mitch Daniels hoped would save more than $1 billion by reducing the number of people held in prison is headed to the Senate floor.  But the bill, approved 8-2 by a Senate committee Monday, has changed so much because of pressure from prosecutors that it's no longer clear whether it will save any money in the long term. "We just don't accept the idea that because the Department of Correction has a bed problem that we should be releasing serious felons back on the street," said Sen...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 15, 2011 (boomark / email).