HCR 4426-S - DIGEST

(DIGEST OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE)

     Resolves that the Sentencing Guidelines Commission shall conduct a comprehensive review and evaluation of state sentencing policy, including whether current sentencing ranges and standards, as well as existing mandatory minimum sentences, existing sentence enhancements, and special sentencing alternatives, are consistent with the purposes of the Sentencing Reform Act as set out in RCW 9.94A.010, with the intent of the legislature to emphasize confinement for the violent offender and alternatives to confinement for the nonviolent offender, and whether current sentencing ranges and standards are consistent with existing corrections capacity.

     Requires a report by December 1, 2001.