Volkmer supports lawmakers changing course on crime policies

by Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services

State lawmakers took the first steps Wednesday to reversing decades of tough-on-crime policies.

Without a single dissent, members of the House Committee on Criminal Justice Reform voted to restore some of the discretion taken away from judges more than four decades ago to determine what is an appropriate sentence.

HB 2673 does not scrap all of the mandatory sentencing laws.

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