View the text of the bill sponsored by Georgia Sen. Purdue. The Georgia Senate's homepage. There are over 37,000 people in prison in Georgia. All right, gentlemen. Head and eyes straightforward.
State courts hand down some of the toughest sentences in the country.
You can get 20 years here for stealing a lawn mower. Even so, some people want these inmates to stay in prison even longer than they do now. They want to abolish parole. State Senator Sonny Perdue is one of them. We think the people of Georgia want truth in sentencing when the judge says five years, that it means five years.