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House Bill 1505 hearing: clearance-rate reporting, phone cost cap and prison workforce measures discussed
Summary
House Bill 15-05, presented by Rep. Chad Perkins, is a comprehensive corrections bill that would require clearance-rate reporting, expand reentry supports and place limits on some correctional practices, witnesses told the Commerce Committee.
Representative Chad Perkins, sponsor of House Bill 15-05, told the Commerce Committee the measure contains multiple provisions intended to affect criminal justice and corrections operations, including collection and publication of criminal clearance rates, limits on restraints for children and pregnant people, electronic medical records access for people leaving prison, limits on county-jail phone-call charges, and a hospice-care training curriculum for incarcerated people.
“First, it has clearance rates in it … clearance rates, of course, would be good for crime reporting statistics,” Perkins said. He said the bill would make those data accessible and that law enforcement stakeholders had expressed interest. Witnesses who testified in support — including Matthew Charles (state legislative affairs manager for FAM, a national nonprofit) and Alex Eaton of…
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