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Judiciary panel backs sentence enhancement for assaults on correctional staff, despite juvenile-justice objections
Summary
The committee approved SB109 to add a sentence enhancement when a correctional employee is the victim of a first-degree battery, raising maximum penalties for covered incidents; witnesses and public commenters debated scope, juvenile applicability and alternatives such as staffing and training.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to give SB109 a ``due pass,'' advancing a bill that creates a sentence enhancement for battery in the first degree when the victim is a correctional employee.
Senator Sandra Urban presented the bill, and Solomon Graves, legislative liaison for the Department of Correction, told the committee the change was intended to align the first-degree statute with an existing enhancement in the battery-second statute and to signal that assaults on correctional staff will be…
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