In 1999, he voted present on a bill that allowed juvenile offenders who committed certain crimes to be tried as adults.
The report attacks the practice of allowing young offenders to mix with older inmates.
The prison guards allowed other offenders to gather and say goodbye to a death row inmate on the night before his execution.
Instead, they allowed offenders such as these two appellants to return again and again with further stolen property.
Forty-two states and the federal government allow offenders under 18 to be put away forever.
In June 1985, a law was passed allowing first offenders who had committed petty crimes to serve sentences of six months or less in public-service jobs.
This allows less serious offenders to remain in their communities or at home.
Eighteen states allow juvenile offenders as young as sixteen to be executed.
Attentive education allows uninformed young offenders to grow into informed, law-abiding citizens.
The governor's proposal would also allow nonviolent offenders already in prison serving those long sentences to petition the Appellate Division for a reduction.