Tag search result for: Structured Sentencing

Ideas on punishment shifted

bniolet — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:41:01 -0400

The state will have to release 20 inmates serving life sentences for violent crimes because of a some changes over the last 30 years to the sentencing laws.

Altering the way the state punishes crime is the natural result of the fact that the theory behind why people have to go to prison has changed, said Jim Drennan, a professor of public law and government at the UNC School of Government.

Easley blames structured sentencing

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:32:38 -0500

Gov. Mike Easley blamed sentencing laws for problems with the state's probation system.

In an interview, Easley said the principal flaw in the probation system is that sentencing laws allow too many people to avoid prison.

"The current system puts people on probation who shouldn't be on probation," he said. "Until those people are put behind bars, this is going to continue."

Beck: Legislature didn't fund probation

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:30:19 -0500

Correction Secretary Theodis Beck fired back at the legislature.

In a letter to the editor printed over the weekend in the N&O, the longtime secretary argued that the recent series on problems with probation missed some details, including the effects of a Structured Sentencing law from the 1990s.