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| 3 | 3 | | LCO No. 1045 1 of 2 |
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| 5 | 5 | | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 221 |
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| 6 | 6 | | January Session, 2021 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LCO No. 1045 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY |
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| 13 | 13 | | Introduced by: |
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| 14 | 14 | | SEN. HASKELL, 26th Dist. |
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| 18 | 18 | | AN ACT CONCERNING PAROLE OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDIVIDUALS |
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| 19 | 19 | | SERVING LENGTHY SENTENCES FOR CRIMES COMMITTED |
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| 20 | 20 | | BEFORE THE INDIVIDUAL TURNED TWENTY -FIVE YEARS OF AGE. |
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| 21 | 21 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General |
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| 22 | 22 | | Assembly convened: |
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| 24 | 24 | | That titles 46b, 53a and 54 of the general statutes be amended to apply 1 |
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| 25 | 25 | | the provisions of public act 15-84 concerning individuals who received 2 |
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| 26 | 26 | | lengthy sentences for crimes committed before the individual turned 3 |
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| 27 | 27 | | eighteen to individuals who received a definite sentence or total 4 |
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| 28 | 28 | | effective sentence of more than ten years for a crime committed before 5 |
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| 29 | 29 | | the individual turned twenty-five in order to allow such individuals to 6 |
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| 30 | 30 | | become eligible for parole sooner than Connecticut's Truth in 7 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Sentencing laws would otherwise allow as follows: (1) For such 8 |
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| 32 | 32 | | individual who is serving fifty years or less, such individual would be 9 |
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| 33 | 33 | | eligible for a parole hearing after serving sixty per cent of their sentence 10 |
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| 34 | 34 | | or twelve years, whichever is greater; or (2) for such individual serving 11 |
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| 35 | 35 | | a sentence of more than fifty years, such individual would be eligible for 12 |
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| 36 | 36 | | a parole hearing after serving thirty years, with decisions concerning 13 |
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| 37 | 37 | | release being consistent with the factors in subdivisions (1) to (4), 14 |
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| 38 | 38 | | inclusive, of subsection (c) of section 54-300 of the general statutes, and 15 Proposed Bill No. 221 |
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| 41 | 41 | | LCO No. 1045 2 of 2 |
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| 43 | 43 | | providing that individuals eligible for such parole opportunities must 16 |
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| 44 | 44 | | be notified of such opportunities. 17 |
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| 45 | 45 | | Statement of Purpose: |
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| 46 | 46 | | To incentivize rehabilitation among incarcerated individuals and |
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| 47 | 47 | | provide a second chance for those who were convicted and sentenced |
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| 48 | 48 | | before twenty-five years of age. |
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