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Sentencing Law and Policy: Mixed messages on mandatory minimums from executive branch in New Jersey witrh a retroactive kicker typepad.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from typepad.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Hudson County View Facebook photo. By John Heinis/Hudson County View “The initial bills were drafted and while some of the recommendations have been enacted, cornerstone recommendations one through four, including elimination of the mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug and property crimes have floundered,” CPANJ President Esther Suarez, also the Hudson County prosecutor, wrote in a letter to Murphy yesterday. “As has been reported, these recommendations have languished because of an attempt to add the elimination of mandatory minimum sentences for various crimes committed by state or local public officers or employees … The added provision was not part of the Commission’s unanimous recommendation. The CPANJ specifically opposed the addition of these crimes.” ....
NorthJersey.com Advocates for criminal justice reform are cheering a new bill up for approval in the state Assembly that would eliminate mandatory minimum prison sentences for a bevy of crimes, from public corruption to drug possession to shoplifting. The bill, S-3456, which received swift approval from the state Senate on Monday with no discussion and advanced at an Assembly committee meeting Wednesday, remains controversial, with one Republican lawmaker chiding his colleagues for writing themselves a “get-out-of-jail-free card.” The effort in New Jersey to ax mandatory minimum prison sentences is part of a nationwide push to revisit anti-crime legislation from the 1980s and ‘90s that reformers blame for creating a dramatic racial disparity among inmates. New Jersey’s disparity is among the worst in the nation, experts say. ....
Randolph's Knapp still has 'a lot in the tank' since leaving county's top cop post newjerseyhills.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newjerseyhills.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.