Blog Posts in November, 2015

Advocates Hopeful About Drug-Sentence Reform

In the view of many advocates for criminal justice reform, the 2016 legislative session marks the best opportunity in a generation to overhaul Minnesota’s drug-sentencing laws. Maybe ever. Yes, they acknowledge, some factors auger against success. A similar push last session went nowhere, the partisan squabbling at the Legislature has hardly diminished since then, and this is an election year. ...