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

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.

Democrat Gov. Mike Beebe, who strongly backed the measure, signed it into law on March 22, 2011. The law took effect on July 27.

Specific to marijuana law…