Center for Media and Democracy Alec Model Legislation Mandatory Sentencing for Repeated Felony Theft From a Retail Store Act With Analysis
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Exposed D I D Y O U K N O W ? Corporations VOTED to adopt this. Through ALEC, global companies LOGIN | LOGOUT | HOME | JOIN ALEC | CONTACT ALEC EXPOSED Search ABOUT GO MEMBERS EVENTS & MEETINGS “ALEC” has long been a NEWS secretive collaboration between BigLegislation Business and Model “conservative” politicians. Civil Justice Behind closed doors, they ghostwrite “model” bills to Commerce, Insurance, be introduced in state and Economic Development capitols across the country. This agenda--underwritten Education by global corporations-includes majorEnvironment, tax Energy, and Agriculture loopholes for big industries and the super rich, Federal Relations proposals to offshore U.S. jobs and gut and minimum Health Human wage,Services and efforts to weaken public health, International Relations safety, and environmental protections. Public Although Safety andmany Elections of these bills have become law, until now, their origin Tax and Fiscal Policy has been largely unknown. With ALEC EXPOSED, the Telecommunications Centerand forInformation Media and Technology Democracy hopes more Americans will study the bills to understand the Print this Page depth and breadth of how Text-Only Page big corporations are changing the legal rules Email this Page and undermining democracy across the nation. ALEC’s’Corporate Board --in recent past or present • AT&T Services, Inc. • centerpoint360 • UPS • Bayer Corporation • GlaxoSmithKline • Energy Future Holdings • Johnson & Johnson • Coca-Cola Company • PhRMA • Kraft Foods, Inc. • Coca-Cola Co. • Pfizer Inc. • Reed Elsevier, Inc. • DIAGEO • Peabody Energy • Intuit, Inc. • Koch Industries, Inc. • ExxonMobil • Verizon • Reynolds American Inc. • Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. • Salt River Project • Altria Client Services, Inc. • American Bail Coalition • State Farm Insurance For more on these corporations, search at www.SourceWatch.org. By the Center for Media and Democracy www.prwatch.org Home work as “equals” in “unison” with politicians to write laws to govern your life. Big MODEL LEGISLATION TASK FORCES ALEC INITIATIVES PUBLICATIONS Business has “a VOICE and a VOTE,” according to newly exposed documents. DO YOU? Model Legislation Public Safety and Elections Mandatory Sentencing for Repeated Felony Theft From a Retail Store Act Section 1. Any person convicted of felony theft from a retail store, who within the immediately preceding four years was twice convicted of felony theft from a retail store, shall be sentenced to at least the minimum term provided for such offense. Section 2. A person convicted under this section shall not be eligible for probation or suspension of sentence. Adopted by ALEC's Criminal Justice Task Force at the States and Nation Policy Summit December 11, 2003. Approved by full ALEC Board of Directors January, 2004. About Members Login Logout Events & Meetings About Us and ALEC EXPOSED. TheTask Center for Media andInitiatives Democracy Publications reports on corporate Model Legislation Forces ALEC Home spin and government propaganda.! We are located in Madison, publish www.PRWatch.org, www.SourceWatch.org, Join ALECWisconsin, Contactand News and now www.ALECexposed.org. For more information contact: editor@prwatch.org or 608-260-9713. Center for Media and Democracy's quick analysis This is part of a set of bills favored by corporations to increase criminal penalties for retail theft. This bill in particular reduces a judge's discretion in sentencing by requiring a mandatory minimum sentence. It takes away the judge's ability to impose alternate or lesser punishments based on the individual circumstances of a particular case. This bill would benefit large retailers such as Wal-Mart, which sits on the ALEC Private Sector board.