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Criminal

Jun. 24, 2006

California Needs a Sentencing Commission, Expert Tells Panel

SACRAMENTO - California is falling behind other states in reducing prison overcrowding and inmate recidivism and should establish a sentencing commission to recommend reforms, criminal law specialists told a bipartisan panel Thursday.

By Linda Rapattoni
Daily Journal Staff Writer


SACRAMENTO - California is falling behind other states in reducing prison overcrowding and inmate recidivism and should establish a sentencing commission to recommend reforms, criminal law specialists told a bipartisan panel Thursday.
      Kevin Reitz, a law professor at the University of Minnesota, told the Little Hoover Commission that sentencing commissi...

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