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Sentencing Guidelines Commission advances criminal‑history package; staff to model impacts
Summary
The Sentencing Guidelines Commission moved toward a package of criminal‑history reforms — removing juvenile points, turning custody status into a durational add‑on, and shortening decay windows — and asked staff to run numerical impact estimates and prepare follow‑up work, including possible legislative recommendations on mandatory minimums.
The Sentencing Guidelines Commission on Aug. 11 continued a months‑long comprehensive review and signaled support for a coordinated package of criminal‑history changes intended to simplify the guidelines and reduce unintended severity caused by old priors. Commissioners instructed staff to model the sentencing and bed‑impact of those changes before final votes later in the fall.
Chair Mitchell framed the day as the end of a two‑year project to make the guidelines “transparent, inclusive, and thoughtfully executed,” and to ensure presumptive sentences are proportionate and easier to use. Steering‑committee members presented a set of…
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