The Massachusetts Sentencing Commission, a panel of judges, prosecutors and other criminal justice experts, has recommended that judges be allowed to depart from mandatory sentences when a defendant does not have a serious criminal record. We need a new form of confinement, one that merges features of regular prisons with varying degrees of liberty and obligations in the community. Mandatory electronic monitoring Mandatory school, work, or community service. A standard supervision ratio of one agent to 17 offenders. 18-20 contacts per month.
Mandatory urine screens.
A new sentence of Conditional Supervision would be created. This would allow the judge to set specific conditions, the satisfaction of which would result in the discharge of the offender. An offender who violates conditions of CCC may also be transferred to DAI upon recommendation of the Program Review Committee and the approval of the sentencing court. Patacki Appoints Sentencing Reform commission New York's governor Pataki has appointed Attorney General Dennis C. Vacco chairman of the state Sentencing Reform Commission in order to study the effects of the 1994 Sentencing Reform Act, and propose improvements to that legislation. Among drug offenders sentenced to long, mandatory terms in Massachusetts state prisons, nearly half have no record of violent crime, according to a study of the state's prison population.