Advocates urge Minnesota to move faster on prison release program

Advocates say state moving slowly on early release prison program

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 Sahan Journal reports. The Minnesota Rehabilitation and Reinvestment Act is supposed to help people in prison work towards early release, but criminal justice advocates say no one’s been released two years after it went into effect. According to a statement is…

Advocates urge Minnesota to move faster on prison release program

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…