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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 7037
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 688
Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
REP. PORTER, 94th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING PAROLE AND PROBATION TECHNICAL
VIOLATIONS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That title 54 of the general statutes be amended to make 1
comprehensive changes to address how technical violations within the 2
parole and probation systems lead to reincarceration, including 3
incentivizing good behavior and allowing people to earn release from 4
parole, requiring timely hearings, creating maximum terms of 5
reincarceration for violations and eliminating incarceration as a 6
sanction for certain technical violations and reducing the number of 7
incarcerated people and reinvesting funds that would otherwise go 8
toward the costs of such incarceration back into the community. 9
Statement of Purpose:
To make comprehensive changes to address how technical violations
within the parole and probation systems lead to reincarceration.