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| Budget Problems Changing AZ Sentencings |
| By canadianbusiness.com |
| Published: 11/10/2010 |
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PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona's budget troubles could prompt lawmakers to seriously consider changing criminal sentencing laws to reduce or slow the costly growth of the state's prison population, two legislators said Tuesday. Rep. Bill Konopnicki, R-Safford, said many of his colleagues' fear of being labeled soft on crime has kept the Legislature from taking up the issue. "We cannot afford the current policies that we have, nor is there the will in the Legislature to change it," Konopnicki said. Read More. |
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