The bill would allow low-level, non-violent felony convictions to be automatically removed from a person's record after remaining offense-free for 10 years.
Few people would deny that the City of Brotherly Love has a serious issue with crime. Philadelphia had more than 500 homicides last year, and lesser crimes are soaring as well, with police already rec.
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How does adding more minority and women judges affect theadministration of justice? Using a Tobit regression model andcontrolling for such factors as the sentence recommended by thePennsylvania sentencing guidelines showed that black judges handeddown longer incarceration sentences than white judges and that,although white judges did not tend to sentence black offenders anymore severely than they did white offenders, black judges did tendto sentence black offenders to longer prison terms than whitejudges gave to white offenders.