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TRENTON – The Senate today passed legislation Senators Shirley K. Turner and Nicholas P. Scutari sponsored to create a municipal court-based conditional dismissal program, giving municipal judges the same ability as state judges to assign certain offenders to pre-trial intervention programs rather than jail.
“Pre-trial intervention programs have proven themselves to be a success in giving people in the Superior Court system the chance to turn their lives around without having a record of conviction and incarceration,” said Turner (D-Mercer/Hunterdon). “A program good enough for our state courts should also be good enough for local courts, where many nonviolent offenders first wind up.”
TRENTON – A Senate committee today released legislation Senator Shirley K. Turner sponsored to create a municipal court-based conditional dismissal program, giving municipal judges the same ability as state judges to assign certain offenders to pre-trial intervention programs rather than jail.
“Pre-trial intervention programs have proven themselves to be a success in giving people in the Superior Court system the chance to turn their lives around without having a record of conviction and incarceration,” said Turner (D-Mercer/Hunterdon). “A program good enough for our state courts should also be good enough for local courts, where many nonviolent offenders first wind up.”