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Advocates urge Minnesota to move faster on prison release program

MINNESOTA, JUL 8 – The Minnesota Rehabilitation and Reinvestment Act lets inmates reduce sentences by up to 17% through rehabilitation, with pilot expansions planned to include more prisons and participants.

Summary by Sahan Journal
Criminal justice advocates are frustrated that a law that allows incarcerated people to shorten their sentences in Minnesota is still in its pilot stages two years after it was passed.  The Minnesota Rehabilitation and Reinvestment Act (MRRA) was passed by the Minnesota Legislature in 2023, and went into effect Aug. 1 of that year. The act allows incarcerated people to shorten their sentence by up to 17% for good behavior and if they work to reh…

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Sahan Journal broke the news in on Tuesday, July 8, 2025.
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