"Bipartisan legislation will cut spending, reduce recidivism"
PR Newswire
March 3, 2011
From PRNewswire:
"The broad series of reforms Governor Steve Beshear signed into law today puts Kentucky at the forefront of states advancing research-driven, criminal justice policies designed to protect public safety, hold offenders accountable and control corrections costs. The Public Safety and Offender Accountability Act was a strong bipartisan effort, passing the Senate unanimously and the House by a vote of 96 to 1."
"With technical assistance from the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Center on the States, the Crime and Justice Institute at Community Resources for Justice and the JFA Institute, the Kentucky Task Force on the Penal Code and Controlled Substances Act analyzed a wide array of criminal justice data and compared state policies with national best practices, then forged consensus on a series of recommendations."
