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| Draft bills aim to ease burden on crowded prisons, jails |
| By jamestownsun.com- Mike Nowatzki |
| Published: 08/06/2014 |
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BISMARCK — A group studying ways to take pressure off of North Dakota’s crowded prisons and jails voted Tuesday to advance bills that would give judges more discretion over mandatory minimum sentences and juvenile transfers to adult court and make it a less severe offense to possess drug paraphernalia in certain cases. “If you want to see who’s clogging up the jail cells, just look at drug paraphernalia,” said Leann Bertsch, director of the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and a member of the Commission on Alternatives to Incarceration. Recent population growth stemming in part from North Dakota’s oil boom has been reflected in the state’s prisons and jails. The corrections department’s average daily count of adult inmates climbed 6.4 percent from 2008 to 2013, from 1,437 to 1,529, and all of its 1,576 inmate beds were full at the end of last year. Read More. |
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