Earlier this month, the Governor’s Office released the annual report of statistics from the Public Safety Improvement Act of 2011, referred to by some by it’s bill numbering, Senate Bill 70. Among numbers pointed out was the overall prison population declining and exceeding the projected impact of the criminal justice reform measure. For all the information the report highlights, Beadle County States Attorney Mike Moore believes the report is missing some important ones…
Moore says he’s not seen crime dropping…
Moore also took issue with the parole success rate increasing from 37-percent in Fiscal Year 2012 to 65-percent in F-Y 16, because the way parole works has changed…
The change in parole policy changes with the passage of Senate Bill 70 in 2011.