Another article in yesterday's Gazette mentions the bills recently introduced in the Maryland House and Senate that would cap the number of diminution credits that violent offenders can earn as part of a three-pronged approach to fighting violent crime in Montgomery County and the rest of the state. New policies on dealing with illegal immigrant and juvenile violent offenders are also being pursued in Montgomery County.
Although the article and an accompanying video focus mainly on the illegal immigrant issue -- which has been a high-profile issue in Montgomery County and elsewhere in the Washington area for a while now -- there are a few paragraphs devoted to the diminution credit issue and the bills currently before the General Assembly. The article also mentions how the proposed legislation was prompted by Lindsay Harvey's murder at the hands of convicted felon who had been released from prison early thanks in part to the good time credit system.
Also, for what it's worth now, The Gazette ran a sidebar yesterday that uncovered more details about the death threats Shawn Henderson made last week to his 16-year-old codefendant Anthony Moore just before they were about to be transported to the Montgomery County Courthouse for Henderson's trial.
Moore will be tried in Lindsay's murder next month.
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