Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, September 15, 1994 TAG: 9409150041
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: By The Associated Press
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Retain the parole board to oversee inmates already in the system.
Spend $850 million to build new prisons over the next 10 years, possibly by issuing state-backed bonds to finance the construction.
Increase sentences 100 percent for violent first-time offenders and 300 percent to 700 percent for repeat criminals.
Offer a new executive clemency option for aged criminals no longer considered a crime risk.
Revise sentencing guidelines for judges.
Retain jury sentencing for the approximately 5 percent of cases currently heard by juries.
Limit ``good time'' sentence reductions to a maximum 60 days a year.
Change the rules for juveniles so that crimes committed as a youth count against a criminal rearrested as an adult.
Allow for state supervision of new inmates for up to three years after release.
Set up 10 new minimum-security work camps for nonviolent criminals.
Double-bunk and double-cell inmates to help offset the need for new prisons.
Use inmate labor to help build new prisons.
Deferred until 1995: Reform of the juvenile justice system; expansion of the death penalty to ``embrace additional heinous homicides.''
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