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Missouri Digital News
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Mo. Digital News
Missouri Digital News
MDN.ORG:
Mo. Digital News
MDN.ORG:
Missouri Digital News
MDN.ORG:
Missouri Digital News
MDN.ORG
Mo. Digital News
Missouri Digital News
MDN.ORG:
Mo. Digital News
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Missouri Digital News
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Members of Missouri's executive, legislative and judicial branches are teaming up on a new project aimed at keeping nonviolent offenders out of prison. |
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Wrap: Governor Jay Nixon and other top officials announced a plan they say will help reduce the costs of running the state's prisons.
A new bipartisan group -- now looking for ways to put the state's nonviolent offenders in treatment centers and probation programs... and keeping them out of prison.
Nixon says similiar policies in Kansas, Arkansas and Kentucky have saved those states money.
| Actuality: | NIXON3.WAV |
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| Run Time: | 00:10 |
| Description: While the simple act of a crime and the simple act of a life might be one act at one point, this is a very complex social issue. | |
Nixon says he hopes proposed legislation will be ready this winter.
From the state Capitol, I'm Elizabeth Hagedorn, Newsradio 1120 KMOX.
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A new Missouri task force will attempt to cut the costs of running the state's prisons. |
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| RunTime: | 0:35 |
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Wrap: And it would do so by moving some of the state's 30-thousand inmates into treatment programs and probabation centers.
Governor Jay Nixon and other top officials announced the new task force would study alternative sentencing for non-violent offenders.
...Pointing to successful results in states like Kansas, Arkansas and Kentucky .. all of which have adopted similiar policies.
| Actuality: | NIXON5.WAV |
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| Run Time: | 00:05 |
| Description: This is a chance to take a broad view and turn it into something that will make a long term difference. | |
Nixon says he hopes proposed legislation will be ready early this winter.
From the state Capitol, I'm Elizabeth Hagedorn, Newsradio 1120 KMOX.