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Kokomo Tribune (CorrectionsOne.com)
July 20, 2014
By Mike Fletcher
KOKOMO, Ind. — Sentencing reform aims to reduce Indiana’s prison population, but the law may have the opposite effect on county jails.
The reforms passed this year mean to divert low-level offenders away from state prisons and into county jails or community-based programs by giving judges more leeway in sentencing for those crimes.