{"id":1631,"date":"2014-03-13T18:43:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T22:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2022-04-29T17:18:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T21:18:29","slug":"conn-considers-reforming-broken-school-zone-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/13\/conn-considers-reforming-broken-school-zone-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Conn. considers reforming broken school zone law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/AleksCT-250w.jpeg\" alt=\"Aleks testifies in CT for sentencing enhancement zone policy reform\" width=\"250\" height=\"184\" class=\"reportcover right thumb250\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I testified before Connecticut&#8217;s Judiciary Committee in support of reforming Connecticut&#8217;s sentencing enhancement laws (my testimony starts at 3:34:03).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nConnecticut&#8217;s 1,500-foot sentencing enhancement zones, meant to protect children from drug activity, are some of the largest in the country. I described how the law&#8217;s sheer expanse means it fails to actually set apart protected areas <em>and<\/em> that it arbitrarily increases penalties for urban residents. As <a href=\"http:\/\/senatedems.ct.gov\/pr\/holder-winfield-140312.php\">Senator Holder-Winfield concisely explains<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cga.ct.gov\/asp\/cgabillstatus\/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&#038;bill_num=259&#038;which_year=2014&#038;SUBMIT1.x=0&#038;SUBMIT1.y=0&#038;SUBMIT1=Normal\">Senate Bill 259<\/a> would decrease that size to a more effective 200 feet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor more details, check out the video above and my <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140712065558\/http:\/\/www.cga.ct.gov\/2014\/JUDdata\/Tmy\/2014SB-00259-R000312-Prison%20Policy%20Initiative%20-%20Aleks%20Kajstura-TMY.PDF\">written testimony (with maps)<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p> And check back in soon, I&#8217;m releasing a report examining Connecticut&#8217;s sentencing enhancement zones on the 28th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conn. Judicial Committee hears testimony in favor of sentencing enhancement zone reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[12],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13618,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions\/13618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}