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Toward Creating a More Equal Sentencing System

Loaded on March 15, 1991 published in Prison Legal News March, 1991, page 5
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole. Location: Washington.
Toward Creating A More Equal Sentencing System
In 1981 the Washington state legislature enacted the Sentencing Reform Act (SRA) in order to change from a rehabilitation based system of corrections to a punishment oriented sentencing policy. Two additional reasons for the change, as set out in RCW 9.94A.010 (2) and ...

 

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