Bill > H4012

This bill implements the joint recommendations of the Massachusetts criminal justice review. The key provisions of the bill include: - Allowing certain ineligible offenders serving mandatory minimum sentences to be eligible for deductions from their sentences for good conduct, work release, and parole permits, but not until they have served the mandatory minimum term. - Establishing a system where the parole board must issue a parole permit to a prisoner on their "release to supervision date" if the prisoner has earned at least 30 days of completion credits and submitted an approved parole plan. - Creating a pretrial services program that courts can order as an alternative to bail or condition of release, and allowing probation to utilize these programs. - Establishing a system where eligible offenders on probation supervision can earn compliance credits that reduce the length of their probation term. The bill aims to reform various aspects of the criminal justice system in Massachusetts, including sentencing, parole, pretrial detention, and probation supervision.

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https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4012