Supports 10-20-Life and Stop Turning Out Prisoners program
In the Preamble to the Constitution, one of the primary roles of government is defined as ensuring domestic tranquility, which means keeping our people safe. We are fulfilling this responsibility with tougher laws and increased enforcement along with
crime prevention strategies within the criminal justice system. Effective legislation such as Stop Turning Out Prisoners and 10-20-Life is making an impact on the crime rate, while the Anti-Murder Act will prevent future tragedies.
And we must also work together to address crime in our state, including gang activity.
I was proud to launch the Attorney General's Cyber Crime Unit in 2005 to thwart the actions of those who target our children.
Attorney General Bill McCollum has made fighting this crime a top priority.
Source: 2008 State of the State Address to Florida legislature
Mar 4, 2008
Supports 10-20-Life and Stop Turning Out Prisoners program
And we must also work together to address crime in our state, including gang activity.
I was proud to launch the Attorney General's Cyber Crime Unit in 2005 to thwart the actions of those who target our children.
Attorney General Bill McCollum has made fighting this crime a top priority.
Source: 2008 State of the State Address to Florida legislature
Mar 4, 2008
Proposed the Anti-Murder Act
I have proposed the Anti-Murder Act. I have witnessed firsthand the unimaginable limits of human grief when a parent loses a child to violent crime. Until you have listened to a father or a mother who have seen the light of their lives extinguished
by the monstrous assault of a violent felon, you cannot know the enormity of the threat we face. We owe our parents the simple assurance that we have done everything within our power to prevent these atrocities from ever happening again.
Source: State of the State Address
Mar 6, 2007
Require that prisoners serve at least 85% of their sentences
As a State Senator, Charlie fought for and passed the STOP (Stop Turning Out Prisoners) legislation that required, for the first time, that prisoners serve at least 85% of their sentences.
Source: Campaign website, www.charliecrist.com, "Issues"
Nov 7, 2006
Broaden use of federal death penalty
Crist supports the following principles concerning crime:
Broaden use of the death penalty for federal crimes.
Prosecute youths accused of a felony as adults.
Increase funding for local
Boys & Girls Clubs and other independent organizations in communities with at-risk youth.
Deport all permanent resident aliens convicted of a felony.
Source: Congressional 1998 National Political Awareness Test
Nov 1, 1998
More federal prisons; more "truth in sentencing"
Crist supports the following principles concerning crime:
Increase spending to build more federal prisons.
Impose "truth in sentencing" for violent criminals so they serve full sentences with no chance of parole.
Fund programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
Expand funding for community policing programs.
Increase penalties for the possession of any illegal firearms.
Source: Congressional 1998 National Political Awareness Test
Nov 1, 1998
