This proposal addresses how juvenile adjudications affect adult sentencing.
Allow people whose adult sentences were increased because of juvenile adjudications to seek resentencing.
Retroactively apply earlier changes that reduced the impact of juvenile offenses on adult sentencing. (lwvwa.org)
Washington uses the ISRB for certain categories of offenders, evaluating whether eligible individuals should be released based on institutional behavior, rehabilitation, and public safety risk.
HB 1239 focuses on earned release time calculations, reentry planning, and credits related to presentence incarceration.
HB 1591 would permit courts to consider alternatives to lengthy sentences when a defendant’s own victimization significantly contributed to the offense.