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Changes to telehealth policy enable mental health and substance abuse treatment programs. This is crucial, as the rate of incarceration is increasing.

This year, partly due to COVID-19’s effect on last year’s legislature, dozens of criminal justice bills were passed by the Tennessee legislature. Some increase penalties for crimes. Others give victims more protection. And others change criminal procedure for those in the system. Gov. Bill Lee pushed three big criminal justice laws this year. A police reform bill, based on recommendations of a task force appointed last summer amid national uproar over policing tactics, bans no-knock w...

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed two major criminal justice reform bills into law Monday. The Alternatives to Incarceration Act, which replaces the Tennessee Community Act of 1985, places a cap on t...

The laws take effect July 1.

NewsChannel 5 Launders the Governors PR on Criminal Justice Reform A recent story uncritically portrays Bill Lee as a reformer when he is actually upholding the system Tweet Share NewsChannel 5 broadcast a story on Friday that could almost be described as a press release for Gov. Bill Lee — only its worse than that. Theyve taken the governors self-serving framing of the criminal justice "reforms" he recently signed into law and applied a lacquer of credibility ...

2 Criminal Justice Reform Bills Are Approved By The Tennessee Legislature Thursday, April 29, 2021 The Tennessee Legislature has passed  two criminal justice reform bills that were a priority of Governor Bill Lee and informed by the recommendations of the Tennessee Criminal Justice Investment Task Force.    The Alternatives to Incarceration Act expands access to safe prison alternatives, ensures reasonable pre-trial release conditions for those facing criminal charges, and establish...

Tennessee legislature passes two bills to reform criminal justice system The Alternatives to Incarceration Act and the Reentry Success Act passed, both part of Gov. Bill Lees proposals to reform the states criminal justice system. Author: WBIR Staff Updated: 4:16 PM CDT April 28, 2021 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee legislature passed two bills meant to help reform the states criminal justice system Wednesday by developing community-based alternatives to incar...