Bill Information

An Act establishing the Pennsylvania Criminal Justice Commission of 2009 as a subcommission under the Commission on Crime and Delinquency to review the Commonwealth's entire criminal justice system within an 18-month period, to propose concrete, wide-ranging reforms designed to responsibly reduce the overall incarceration rate, to improve State and local responses to international and domestic gang violence, to restructure our approach to drug policy, to improve the treatment of mental illness, to improve prison administration, and to establish a system for reintegrating ex-offenders.