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Connecticut Governor appoints sentencing and parole task force

As detailed in this New Haven Register article, Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell has created a Sentencing and Parole Review Task Force “to review state charging, sentencing and parole procedures in the wake of the July triple-homicide in Cheshire.” 

I am impressed to see this sort of sound and sensible reaction to a terrible crime (instead of, say, knee-jerk legislation to increase sentence lengths).  But I am disappointed to see that, as detailed here, the new 20-member task force does not appear to include any professors with expertise in sentencing law and policy.