Arizona stands to save $500,000 a year under a new law that requires parolees to pay a portion of their drug-testing fees each month, but prisoner advocates fear the additional costs will strain personal budgets.
The law goes into effect Thursday, but Arizona Department of Corrections legislative liaison Jennifer Bowser said the state has yet to determine how much the parolee will pay and when the new requirement will actually be implemented.
"This change is an efficiency, cost-saving thing," Bowser said. Read more...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Governor Patrick may sign ‘three strikes’ bill
But urges lawmakers to agree to changes
Governor Deval Patrick signaled Tuesday that he may be open to signing a high-profile crime bill if lawmakers agree to make changes next year.
At the same time, Patrick said he had made no final decision about the bill, which is currently on his desk.
“It’s a good bill; it’s not a great bill,” Patrick told reporters just before he entered a meeting with House and Senate leaders. “There’s a lot of work that has not yet been done, and I’m hoping that I can get a commitment from the leadership, a commitment to come back and do some of it at the beginning of the next session.”
The bill approved by lawmakers last week would reduce mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses, a Patrick priority, while making many repeat violent offenders ineligible for parole under a much-debated “three-strikes” provision. Read more...
Governor Deval Patrick signaled Tuesday that he may be open to signing a high-profile crime bill if lawmakers agree to make changes next year.
At the same time, Patrick said he had made no final decision about the bill, which is currently on his desk.
“It’s a good bill; it’s not a great bill,” Patrick told reporters just before he entered a meeting with House and Senate leaders. “There’s a lot of work that has not yet been done, and I’m hoping that I can get a commitment from the leadership, a commitment to come back and do some of it at the beginning of the next session.”
The bill approved by lawmakers last week would reduce mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses, a Patrick priority, while making many repeat violent offenders ineligible for parole under a much-debated “three-strikes” provision. Read more...
Monday, July 9, 2012
Gov. Tom Corbett signs Pennsylvania prison reform into law
Prison reform became law on Thursday, sort of.
Gov. Tom Corbett signed Senate Bill 100, which incorporated many of the reform proposals recommended by his Justice Reinvestment Working Group and which passed both the House and the Senate unanimously.
Gov. Tom Corbett signed Senate Bill 100, which incorporated many of the reform proposals recommended by his Justice Reinvestment Working Group and which passed both the House and the Senate unanimously.
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