Beebe encourages look at alternatives to jailing
Posted: October 28, 2009 at 4:11 a.m.
Gov. Mike Beebe has urged state prison and law enforcement officials, judges and prosecutors to consider “new and existing ideas to punish people beyond traditional incarceration,” particularly for nonviolent offenders, a spokesman for the governor said Tuesday.
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