Indiana House to Review Overhaul of Criminal Sentencing Code

 Beginning today, the Indiana House will be taking a look at rewriting the decades-old criminal sentencing code.

The Criminal Code Evaluation Committee has agreed that the main overhaul of the code focuses on consistency, proportionality, like-sentences for like-crimes, new criminal penalties and sentencing schemes designed to keep dangerous offenders in prison, but avoid using prison space for non-violent offenders.

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