PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor Ch. 545

(vii) Any other matter relating to State and local laws and policies
governing sentencing, parole, mandatory supervision, and correctional options programs.

(2) The sentencing and correctional process shall pursue the following

objectives:

(i) Promote sentencing that more accurately reflects the time that an
offender will actually be incarcerated;

(ii) Concentrate prison capacity on the incarceration of violent and

career offenders;

(iii) Reduce unwarranted disparity in sentences for offenders who have
committed similar offenses and have similar criminal histories;

(iv) Preserve meaningful judicial discretion in the imposition of
sentences and sufficient flexibility to permit individualized sentences; and

(v) Ensure that sentencing judges in every jurisdiction in the State are
able to impose the most appropriate criminal penalties, including correctional options
programs for appropriate nonviolent offenders.

(3) (i) The Commission shall develop a correctional population
simulation model to assist in determining the State and local correctional resources that:

1. Are required under current laws, policies, and practices
relating to sentencing, parole, and mandatory supervision; and

2. Would be required to implement the Commission's

recommendations.

(ii) If the Commission's recommendations would result in State and
local inmate populations that would exceed the operating capacities of available facilities,
then the Commission shall present additional sentencing model alternatives consistent
with these capacities.

(g) This section shall terminate and be of no effect after [September 30, 1997]
DECEMBER 31, 1998.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1997.

Approved May 8, 1997.

CHAPTER 545
(House Bill 1389)

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