Washington State Ins t i tute for Publ ic Po

Washington State Sentencing Guidelines The Washington State Legislature passed Since the passage of the SRA and the adoption the Sentencing Reform Act of 1981 (SRA), of the original guidelines grid, the legislature establishing a sentencing guidelines has made many modifications to the state’s commission tasked with developing a sentencing laws.5 While many of these changes recommendation for a se. [...] For the horizontal axes, the Subgroup A Diagonal Axis discussed possible reforms to the state’s method of calculating CHS including the In addition to the vertical and horizontal elimination of “multipliers,” the elimination axes, the Subgroup discussed the possibility of points associated with juvenile of integrating a third axis that would move adjudications, or the development of an diagonally. [...] The WITR measure creates an estimate for each sentence ranging from 0 to 1 where 0 is Compared to the current grid, 29.1% of the minimum of the cell range and 1 is the sentencing events are predicted to experience maximum of the cell range. [...] aggravated and mitigated sentences on the class-based grid 33 For aggravated sentences, the average For mitigated sentences, the amount of time sentence length above the maximum tended below the minimum generally increased as to increase as sentence length increased, but SL increased, but the average percentage of the average percentage above the maximum the minimum generally decreased as SL of th. [...] For each sentence, the percentage of the maximum was calculated by taking the length of stay above the maximum sentence for the cell associated with the particular sentence, divided by the maximum sentence for the cell associated with the particular sentence.