Ballot: GOP main voters assist raise-the-age, decarceration payments

Republican pollster Mike Baselice has launched a memo with opinion ballot outcomes on a number of necessary prison justice subjects (ballot ...

Republican pollster Mike Baselice has launched a memo with opinion ballot outcomes on a number of necessary prison justice subjects (ballot here, protection here), focusing particularly on the views of Republican main voters. For instance, a whopping 86 % of GOP main voters reacted positively to this place on "increase the age" laws accredited on second studying yesterday by the Texas Home:

Presently, 17-year-olds in Texas who're convicted of a criminal offense are mechanically positioned within the grownup justice system. Texas is considered one of solely seven states to do that, regardless that 95% of 17 year-olds are arrested for nonviolent offenses. Listening to this, do you prefer or oppose beginning 17-year-olds within the juvenile justice system whereas giving a choose the discretion to maneuver them to an grownup system on a case-by-case foundation?

On drug penalties, wrote Baselice, "Giant majorities of respondents from the all voter (82%) and Republican main voter (75%) samples favor making possession of a small quantity of medication amongst nonviolent folks a misdemeanor as an alternative of a felony."

See the whole polling memo for extra particulars.