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| NV Bill To Save DUI Offenders Serving Time At Home |
| By rgj.com |
| Published: 10/19/2010 |
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Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, whose opinion in February sent eight drunken-driving offenders back to prison, has filed a bill draft request with the 2011 Legislature that she said aims to clarify the law on house arrest. Masto said Friday that she stands by her position, made in response to a Reno Gazette-Journal investigation, that the law requires people who drive drunk and kill or injure someone to spend a minimum of two years behind bars, not on house arrest. But she said she wants lawmakers to review the law and clarify whether the director of the Nevada Department of Corrections should have the ability to release some DUI offenders on a special program that allows them to serve their time at home. A Reno Gazette-Journal special report found that 40 of the 113 serious DUI offenders convicted since 2000 did not spent the mandatory minimum of two years in prison before being released. Some only spent three or four months before getting out on house arrest under a special corrections program. Read More. |
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