The finding could affect sentencing reform efforts in the Statehouse.
Terre Haute’s mayor says he’d like to see a committee examining sentencing reform in Indiana consider funding local prisons as part of the solution.
Criminal Justice Professor says Indiana’s judicial system is antiquated, and new methods of rehabilitation are needed for modern offenders.
Indiana Chief Justice Randall Shepard, in his State of the Judiciary speech Wednesday, outlined both challenges and changes affecting the state’s legal system.