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Will Conservatives Back Sentencing Reform Merging ‘Compassion and Common Sense’?

By Heritage Foundation Melissa Quinn——--June 23, 2014

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A voter initiative aims to attract bipartisan support for relieving prison overcrowding by reducing sentences for non-violent crimes and putting the savings into community programs.
The question inching closer to the ballot seeks to downgrade low-level felonies — petty theft, receiving stolen property, forging and writing bad checks, minor drug possession — to misdemeanors. Those already convicted for such crimes would be considered for resentencing. Violent crimes including rape, murder, and sex offenses could not be downgraded, however. More...

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