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Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Hearings on Criminal Justice Reform
Loaded on Oct. 10, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2014, page 16
Filed under:
Crime/Demographics,
Cost of Prison Systems,
Sentencing,
Alternative Sentencing.
Location:
Tennessee.
Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Hearings on Criminal Justice Reform
On September 15 and 16, 2014, while Tennessee’s General Assembly was out of session, the Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings on criminal justice reform – the first time a legislative body in the state has comprehensively addressed that topic for ...
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