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Activists from NJT gathered in Jersey City to call on the state to follow Hudson's lead on clearing fees and fines against the incarcerated.
Bill ending mandatory minimums now covers all nonviolent crimes TRENTON — A new version of stalled legislation that would end mandatory minimum sentences now applies to all nonviolent offenses – including official misconduct, which had held up the previous version of the plan. The state Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission had recommended lifting mandatory minimum sentences for many crimes, though not public corruption often charged as official misconduct. When that got added to the last bill, some balked – in part because bill sponsor Sen. Nicholas Sacco, D-Hudson, has a pers...
Credit: (Pool photo: Ed Murray/NJ Advance Media) Gov. Phil Murphy, seen here delivering State of the State address, has balked at move to extend relief to those convicted of official misconduct. The New Jersey Senate went back to square one Tuesday in an effort to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for all nonviolent crimes, most importantly drug offenses, 15 months after a state commission recommended the change. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 7-0 and with little fanfare to advance S-3456, amid calls by activists for lawmakers to end mandatory minimum sentences. The New Jersey Crimi...