The Chief State's Attorney is testifying in the Judiciary Committee now, opposing SB 1018.
Let's do some fact checking. 
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Let's be real: Connecticut's decrease in incarceration in 2020 was mostly due to fewer people entering the system, including bc of a decrease in arrests. Experts have long known that prosecutors are major drivers of mass incarceration, and ...
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2020 showed that prosecutors can *decrease* incarceration if they have the will or circumstances to do so. But Connecticut needs a system to make that happen, because we don't have one now to prevent prosecutorial-driven incarceration from going right back up after COVID.
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@Gary4CT is correct: the division of criminal justice opposed the 2019 prosecutorial transparency bill and played politics with its fiscal note. The division cried wolf then, and they are crying wolf now.Pokaż ten wątek -
If the Chief State's Attorney is willing "to be a part of the solution" to mass incarceration, they should embrace long-term policies to make that happen. With policies like those in SB 1018, decarceration & fairness won't be up to the whims of which prosecutors are in place.
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Pay attention to the barely-coded language that is happening here. The Chief State's Attorney comparing "inner city" and "housing projects" cases in Stamford as requiring different "values" than cases involving "a college kid urinating on a lawn" at UConn is deeply troubling.
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The Chief State's Attorney has concluded their testimony. The committee is now asking questions of the Chief Public Defender. SB 1018 would change state's attorneys' term lengths from 8 years to 5. Public defender leadership serves 4-year term lengths.https://www.acluct.org/en/news/states-attorneys-term-lengths-are-extreme-outliers-connecticut-and-across-country-0 …
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Fact check: Representative Callahan is incorrect. People still face criminal records for drug possession in CT. For example, in 2018, Connecticut arrested Black people 4 times more than white people for marijuana possession, despite similar usage rates.https://graphics.aclu.org/marijuana-arrest-report/CT …
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Happening now: our own
@Moore_Kelly_M is testifying in support of S.B. 1018. "The bill that sits before you today identifies the areas where prosecution needs guidelines." Read her written testimony:https://www.acluct.org/en/legislation/senate-bill-1018-act-concerning-prosecutorial-accountability …Pokaż ten wątek
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