A blue-ribbon panel of legislators from both parties, judges and attorneys is proposing a broad package of criminal justice reforms that would raise the threshold for certain felonies, remove mandatory prison time for many drug possession convictions, cap sentences at probation detention centers and create a statewide system of accountability courts.
The goal is to seek “new ways to protect public safety while controlling the growth of prison costs,” says the report, released Friday by the governor’s Special Council on Criminal Justice Reform. Gov. Nathan Deal created the council last May and charged it with making recommendations to the Legislature that would slow the growth of corrections costs while keeping citizens safe. The report notes that the state’s corrections system budget has grown to more than $1 billion, more than double the cost in 1990, while recidivism has remained unchanged at nearly 30 percent.
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