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Senate committee hears bill to create DOC unit for violent-offender pre-sentence investigations
Summary
Sen. Laura Smith said SB 89 would add a specialized Department of Corrections unit (14 FTEs) to produce higher-quality, timely pre-sentence investigation (PSI) reports for violent offenders, aiming to reduce delays in sentencing and improve victim input; proponents and DOC officials said the unit could shorten turnaround toward statutory targets (30 business days) but carries a fiscal cost.
Senator Laura Smith (sponsor) told the Judiciary Committee that Senate Bill 89, carried on behalf of the Criminal Justice Oversight Council, would create a dedicated unit in the Department of Corrections to produce pre-sentence investigation reports (PSIs) for violent offenders. Smith said PSIs are resource-intensive documents—requiring victim interviews, law-enforcement reports, mental-health evaluations and criminal-history research—and that current caseloads left probation officers and PSI riders with excessive workloads that…
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