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.
The new law seeks to divert nonviolent, addicted offenders from state prison by better treating their addiction issues at the local level. The law provides for evidence-based practices in county probation departments in line with a program that has proven very successful in Hawaii.
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