...most extensive report on guidelines, A Sentencing System for the 21st Century, was prepared by the Governor's Commission on Certainty in Sentencing and came out in December. Under the proposed guidelines, prisons would be filled with violent...

...commission to draft voluntary guidelines for sentencing felons. During a luncheon meeting with the Governor's Commission on Certainty in Sentencing, Mr. Barnes said guidelines would ensure that small-time criminals don't take up prison cells...

...will lead to shorter terms, reversing a mid-1990s crackdown on violent criminals.\r\rBut members of the Commission on Certainty in Sentencing believe they can sell Georgians on statewide sentencing guidelines by stressing their voluntary...

Gov. Roy Barnes' new Commission on Certainty in Sentencing is well-intentioned, except that it looks like a rerun of a similar panel 10 years ago. Unless something has...

...problem building prisons. I showed that in the budget this year," Mr. Barnes told members of the Governor's Commission on Certainty in Sentencing, which includes judges, state lawmakers, prosecutors and other representatives of the criminal...