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By The Sentencing Project

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour signed a bill into law this year to “restore common sense to sentencing in the criminal courts” and relaxing sentencing guidelines. As a result, approximately 7,000 incarcerated individuals were eligible for parole. The state’s prison population had nearly doubled since 1995, in large part as a result of the adoption of a “Truth in Sentencing” law that required all prisoners to serve 85% of their sentence.“Now Mississippi needs to take another step toward controlling the spiraling costs of housing nonviolent, first-time offenders by expanding the successful drug court programs that are operating in several jurisdictions across the state,” a Clarion-Ledger editorial states...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Sentencing Project on July 08, 2008 (boomark / email).