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State Legislative Round-Up

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Let's start with a Marcia Coyle's report in the upcoming National Law Journal, "'Racial impact statements' a reality in Iowa."Iowa recently became the first state to enact a law requiring all new sentencing legislation to be examined for its racial and ethnic impact before passage ? what some sentencing experts hope is the beginning of a trend. Last year, Oregon was the first state to introduce legislation requiring so-called "racial impact statements," but it did not reach final passage. Other bills are pending in Illinois and Connecticut. "Oregon's was the first of a kind, so it's not unusual that it wouldn't make it through the first time," said Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, a strong proponent of the legislation...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 24, 2008 (boomark / email).