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Practitioners and public raised housing, complexity and mens‑rea as drivers of high departure rates
Summary
Researchers and staff summarized statewide engagement and interviews: departure patterns often stem from statutory complexity, housing instability and prosecutorial pragmatism; commissioners used the findings to question mandatory minimums and to consider moving some offenses between grids.
Commission researchers summarized two rounds of statewide engagement and interviews with prosecutors, public defenders, probation officers and people with lived experience, telling the commission the engagement prioritized geographic and cultural representation and gathered about 164 participants.
Julie Laskrinsky of the Robina Institute walked commissioners through interviews…
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