Arkansas: Lawmakers Enact Sentencing Reform Measures, Reduce Pot Possession Penalties

by Gary Kopycinski on September 2, 2011

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Little Rock, AR–(ENEWSPF)–September 2, 2011. Criminal sentencing reform legislation passed by lawmakers earlier this year is now in effect. Senate Bill 750, the Public Safety Improvement Act, intends to reduce the number of non-violent offenders incarcerated statewide by mitigating the sentences for certain low-level drug offenses.