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Sentencing in the Criminal Justice System Interim Study
Committee. Currently, a court is required to sentence certain sex offenders to an indeterminate sentence that is a maximum of the...
Legislative Oversight Committee Concerning the Treatment
of Persons with Mental Health Disorders in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Systems. In 2017, the general assembly enacted a...
The bill states that if the department of corrections (department) relocates an inmate for incarceration or contracts with another state for the incarceration of an inmate in a penal institution in another...
Current law provides 2 definitions by which an offender in the custody of the department of corrections (department) may be considered a special needs offender. The first definition describes a person who...
Section 2 of the bill requires a consumer reporting agency that has a consumer file on an individual who is under 18 years of age to automatically place a security freeze on the individual's consumer...
The bill requires the state court administrator to administer a division that is charged with reminding criminal defendants to appear at their scheduled hearings in the county courts and district courts of...