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| On July 23, 2008 the Joint Committee on the Judiciary polled its members on reporting out of committee a draft of a criminal justice bill which addresses CORI Reform, work release for prisoners serving mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses, mandatory parole for all prisoners, and shrinking the size of school zones to 100 feet for enhanced drug dealing penalties. The Judiciary Committee prepared its own summary of this bill’s provisions. |
Administrative Investigation
| The facts and circumstances surrounding the events which led to inmate John Geoghan’s death on August 23, 2003 |
Proposed New Mandatory Minimums for Sex Offenses
| A new bill was filed on June 2, House Bill 4811, which would create new mandatory minimum sentences for some sex offenses. CJPC has done a comparison of the proposed law with the existing law and a digest and analysis of proposed law. CJPC previously submitted written testimony opposing earlier versions of this legislation |
New reports on Rates of Incarceration Nationwide and Rates of Recidivism in Massachusetts
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