[caption id="attachment_367183" align="alignleft" width="150"] Sen. Jeff Brandes[/caption] A bill to require most police interrogations to be recorded and to expand automatic reviews of long prison terms to “young offenders” as well as those sentenced as juveniles has passed the Senate Criminal Justice Committee. SB 232 is one of several criminal justice reform bills pushed by Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, in this year and in recent sessions. Brandes said the bill streamlines the medical conditional and aging relief programs for older inmates, expands the already legislatively approved review of long sentences imposed on juveniles to those who committed crimes before the age of 25, expands the number of juveniles who can have their life sentences reviewed, and requires the recording of most police interrogations if done “at a place of detention.” Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia have laws, rules, or court precedent that require recording in custodial interrogations or allow the court to consider the lack of a