Truth Sentencing?

Question

My fiance wants me to look up truth sentencing. he said heard that is is being abolished in wisconsin and wants to know if it is true where can i look to find that out? Does anybody know any websites that i could look at and read so i know what to tell him?

Answer 1

Hey daughter, The website is www.wisbar.org. It contains a lot of information pertaining to Wisconsin's Prison System...

Crime and corrections
Among the most obvious changes in the governor's budget are the broad reforms made concerning crime. Coined as the Truth-in-Sentencing initiative, considerable alterations are made to current sentencing, probation and parole procedures in Wisconsin.

An idea that has been growing in popularity over the last several years, Truth-in-Sentencing is a direct outgrowth of political and practical realities of the crime dilemma. At the federal level, the demand for action resulted in enacting the "Crime Bill of 1994," which included federal grants for states seeking to initiate Truth-in-Sentencing programs. States such as Arizona, Missouri and North Carolina have already adopted variations of Truth-in-Sentencing, with Wisconsin about to do the same.

Under the governor's plan, Wisconsin's Truth-in-Sentencing initiative would include a "bifurcated" sentence: a sentence including an actual prison term followed by a period of community supervision (equaling at least 25 percent of the prison term but not longer than the maximum term allowable under law). Additionally, if an offender violates the conditions of community supervision, that individual may be returned to prison to serve more time (again, not longer than the maximum prison term allowable under the law). The budget also proposes significant increases in the maximum term of imprisonment in a series of felony classes:

Class B felony - increase from 40 to 60 years
Class BC felony - increase from 20 to 30 years
Class C felony - increase from 10 to 15 years
Class D felony - increase from 5 to 10 years
Class E felony - increase from 2 to 5 years
controlled substances - increases maximum term of sentences by 50 percent or one year, whichever is greater
increases threshold for making crime of theft a felony from $1,000 to $1,500 (also provides for forgery, if under the new amount, to be a misdemeanor).

Finally, the budget provides that under a life imprisonment sentence, a judge must do one of three things: provide for community supervision upon serving 20 years, set a future date for eligibility sometime after serving 20 years or deny a community supervision option altogether.

Answer 2

If you are talking about "truth IN sentencing"....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_in_Sentencing

Or just do a Yahoo Search (or your favorite search engine).