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IN: Governor Endorses Recommendations of Changes to Criminal Code and Sentencing Policies

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Indiana Releases Results Of State Sentencing Study Posted By admin On December 15, 2010 http://www.thegovmonitor.com Governor Mitch Daniels today endorsed recommendations from the first comprehensive review of Indiana?s criminal code and sentencing policies in more than 30 years. The Governor said the state will improve public safety and security for Hoosiers by concentrating Department of Correction resources on the state?s most violent criminals and by taking a new and smarter approach to those who commit lesser offenses. ?Every significant aspect of law enforcement and criminal justice has been brought together in this project,? said Daniels. ?We have hoped for a package of changes that will bring more certain and firm punishments to the worst offenders in Indiana, more sensible, smarter incarceration for those who pose much less of a danger to Hoosiers and, as a byproduct of that, grace to taxpayers in the form of lower costs in the years ahead...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 16, 2010 (boomark / email).