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Lawmakers push rehabilitation, criminal-justice changes: name change, decriminalization and kit funding advance
Summary
Members highlighted a package of corrections-related measures: renaming the Department of Corrections to include rehabilitation (SB 192), reclassifying ingestion of controlled substances (SB 83) and measures on sexual-assault evidence kits (SB 99).
Lawmakers detailed multiple bills intended to shift the focus of the corrections system toward rehabilitation and improved survivor services.
Representative Erin Healy (House minority leader) said Senate Bill 192 would rename the Department of Corrections to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and expand programs such as education, substance-abuse treatment and job training to reduce recidivism. "A prison shouldn't be a place of confinement but a place…
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