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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

AZ LEG: House Study Committee on Sentencing FRI 5/14

I encourage as many people as possible to attend and sign up to speak at this committee meeting Friday. Read up on Fischer's study first, if you can (here's the press release - it's rather disturbing); the data he has is useful, but I take issue with many of his conclusions. Professor Lynch may rebut some of what he has to say; Franklin Zimring also has some interesting analyses of the trends in crime and punishment over the past decade (here's a sample; Google him for more).

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Interim agendas can be obtained via the Internet at http://www.azleg.state.az.us/InterimCommittees.asp

ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

INTERIM MEETING NOTICE

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

HOUSE STUDY COMMITTEE ON SENTENCING

Date: Friday, May 14, 2010

Time: 10:00 A.M. or upon recess or adjournment of Floor

Place: HHR 5

AGENDA

1.	Call to Order
2.	Opening Remarks
3.	Testimony on Sentencing: · Representative Jerry Madden, Texas State Representative; Vice-Chair, House Corrections Committee; Member, House Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee · Dana Hlavac, Deputy County Manager, Mohave County Criminal Justice Services · Daryl R. Fischer, Ph.D., author “Prisoners in Arizona, A Profile of the Inmate Population” [March, 2010] · Robert Hirsh, Pima County Public Defender · Derek Rapier, Greenlee County Attorney; Chairman, Arizona Prosecuting Attorneys’ Advisory Council · Jeremy Mussman, Maricopa County Public Defender’s Office · Mona Lynch, Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California Irvine; author, Sunbelt Justice: Arizona and the Transformation of American Punishment [Stanford University Press 2009] · David Gallagher, Executive Director, Arizona Addiction Treatment Programs, Inc. · Senator John Huppenthal, Arizona State Senate, District 20
4.	Public Testimony
5.	Discussion
6.	Adjourn

Members:

Representative Cecil Ash, Chair
Representative Doris Goodale
Representative Laurin Hendrix
Representative Bill Konopnicki
Representative Kyrsten Sinema
Representative Anna Tovar

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