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| | NCSLnet: State Crime Legislation in 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | State crime legislation in 2001 also prominently included measures to address community supervision of offenders, sending fewer non-violent offenders to prison or providing options to mandatory minimum terms. |
 | | State legislation in 2001 requires significant expansion of state DNA databases that house samples from convicted offenders and can be compared to physical evidence in unsolved crimes. |
 | | States that passed such measures in 2001 were Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Virginia. |
| www.ncsl.org /programs/cj/01crime.htm (3833 words) |
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