New York State Executive Advisory Committee on Sentencing Research, Hearing, and Study Files
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Overview of the Records
Repository:
New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230
Summary:
The Executive Advisory Committee on Sentencing was established by Governor Carey to evaluate the effectiveness of existing
laws relating to imprisonment, probation, and parole in achieving sentencing goals, and to study and evaluate alternatives
for change. The series consists of meeting agendas and minutes; correspondence; written testimony and testimony given before
the committee; consultants' reports; and research materials pertaining to sentencing, parole, probation, and plea bargaining.
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New York State Executive Advisory Committee on Sentencing research, hearing, and study files
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Inclusive Dates:
1977-1979
Series Number:
12596
Arrangement
Arranged roughly by subject or type of record.
Administrative History
The Executive Advisory Committee on Sentencing was established by Governor Carey by Executive Order #62 (December 5, 1977)
to evaluate the effectiveness of existing laws relating to imprisonment, probation, and parole in achieving sentencing goals,
and to study and evaluate alternatives for change. Specifically, the committee was to evaluate whether indeterminate sentences
are preferable to a system of definite sentencing, or if an option between the two approaches should lay with the sentencing
judge.
The committee limited its study to felony sentences and also attempted to describe and analyze the presentencing stage of
the criminal justice system, as well as the practical results of sentencing. The committee chairman was New York County District
Attorney Robert M. Morganthau; general counsel for the committee was Steven E. Landers.
Scope and Content Note
The series consists of meeting agendas and minutes; correspondence; written testimony and testimony given before the committee;
consultants' reports; and research materials pertaining to sentencing, parole, probation, and plea bargaining.
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Detailed Description
| Contents |
Box |
Accretion: 12596-98 |
| General Committee Information; Meeting Minutes; Meeting Agenda Packages; Correspondence to/from Committee Members |
1 |
| Memorandums to the Committee and Subcommittees (Research and Informational) |
2 |
| Correspondence: General and Chronological; Memorandums to File; Interoffice Memorandums and Miscellaneous |
3 |
| General Office Files: Personnel |
4 |
| Senate Bill (S. 1437) General Information, Articles; Juvenile Justice Information |
5 |
| Sentencing: Other Jurisdictions and Models (General Information and Articles); Sentencing Studies, Articles |
6 |
| Sentencing: Articles and General Information (Continued from Box 6) |
7 |
| Parole: General Information, Articles |
8 |
| Committee Hearings and Written Testimony (All Hearing Information) |
9 |
| Consultants' Reports for the Committee (INSLAW and HARRIS) Drafts |
10 |
| Consultants' Reports (Harris Continued) |
11 |
| Sentencing Simulation Study: Background Information, etc. |
12 |
| Probation: General Materials and Articles (Pre-Sentence Reports, Supervision, etc.) |
13 |
| Parole (General); Insanity Defense; Statistical Profile of the Criminal Justice System (Appendix A of Final Report: Tables
and Printouts)
|
14 |
| General Background Materials on Criminal Justice and Newspaper Clippings, etc. |
15 |
| Final Report: Drafts and Copy |
17 |
| Corrections: General Materials and Articles |
18 |
| Corrections: General Materials and Articles |
19 |
| Corrections: General Materials |
20 |
| Prosecution: Plea Bargaining |
21 |
| Published Articles and Reports Used by Committee in Preparation of Report |
22 |
