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Senate Judiciary panel approves Sentencing Commission’s parole-eligibility rule implementing Protect Arkansas Act
Summary
The Senate Judiciary Committee heard Department of Corrections testimony on an administrative rule from the Sentencing Commission that sets minimum parole-eligibility thresholds (25% and 50%) for most offenses under the Protect Arkansas Act and voted to advance the rule after brief questioning about fiscal assumptions and the policy basis for longer eligibility periods.
The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced an administrative rule implementing provisions of the Protect Arkansas Act after Department of Corrections legal counsel described how the Sentencing Commission assigned most offenses to new minimum parole-eligibility thresholds.
Tawny Rowell, chief legal counsel for the Department of Corrections, told the committee that under the Protect Arkansas Act ‘‘the Protect Arkansas Act changes those thresholds to 25 [percent] and 50 [percent] of sentence,’’ and that the rule preserves statutory 85 percent offenses and…
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