Key Documents
See below for links to key documents (all pdf):
- Criminal Sentencing Task Force 2020 Policy Recommendations: Final Report – 2020
- Criminal Sentencing Task Force Policy Recommendations: Initial Report – 2019
- Budget Proviso establishing the Task Force
- CSTF Members and Alternates – updated April 2022
- Operating Procedures – updated March 18, 2021
- Draft Guiding Principles
- Examining Washington State’s Sentencing Guidelines: A Report for the Criminal Sentencing Task Force, Washington State Institute for Public Policy, May 2021
2022 Key Documents
- CSTF DRAFT Working Document of Potential Recommendations of the Vertical Axis of the Sentencing Guidelines Grid
- Sentencing Alternatives – Eligibility Criteria – DRAFT of 12.17.21
2022 CSTF Working Groups
- Grid Subgroup
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- Grid Subgroup Discussion Guide for CHS Topics_as of 5.17.22
- Grid Subgroup – 5.10.22 meeting notes
- Grid Subgroup – 5.3.22 meeting notes
- Grid Subgroup – 4.26.22 Offense Classifications Draft Proposals
- Grid Subgroup – 4.18.22 meeting notes
- Grid Subgroup – 4.12.22 meeting notes
- Grid Subgroup – 4.5.22 meeting notes
- Grid Subgroup – 3.29.22 meeting notes
- Grid Subgroup – 3.22.22 meeting notes
- Grid Subgroup – 3.15.22 meeting notes
- Grid Subgroup – 3.8.22 meeting notes
- Grid Subgroup – 3.1.22 meeting notes
- Grid Subgroup – 2.22.22 meeting notes
- Grid Subgroup – 2.15.22 meeting notes
- Grid Subgroup – 2.8.22 meeting notes
- Grid Subgroup – 2.1.22 meeting notes
- Grid Subgroup – 1.25.22 meeting notes
- Grid Subgroup – 1.18.22 meeting notes
- Grid Subgroup – 1.11.22 meeting notes
- Sentencing Alternatives Subgroup
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- Sentencing Alternatives Subgroup – 1.25.2022
- Sentencing Alternatives Subgroup – 2.8.2022
- Presentation – Sentencing Alternatives Options on the Grid
- Examining Washington State’s Sentencing Guidelines: A Report for the Criminal Sentencing Task Force, Washington State Institute for Public Policy, May 2021
- Statistical Summary of Adult Felony Sentencing, FY19, Caseload Forecast Council
- Statistical Summary of Adult Felony Sentencing, FY20, Caseload Forecast Council
- Meeting notes – 2.8.2022
- Sentencing Alternatives Subgroup – 2.22.2022
- Sentencing Alternatives Subgroup – 3.8.2022
- Sentencing Alternatives Subgroup – 3.22.2022
- Sentencing Alternatives Subgroup – 4.5.2022
- Sentencing Alternatives Subgroup – 4.19.2022 – CANCELLED
- Sentencing Alternatives Subgroup – 5.3.2022
- Meeting notes – 5.3.2022
- Resources on Community Intermediate Sanctions (all pdf):
- From PA: Order of Probation Handout
- From PA: Sentencing Alternatives
- From PA: Handout on Community Intermediate Punishment
- Galvin & Ulmer (2021): Expanding our understanding of focal concerns: alternative sentences, race, and “salvageability”
- Latessa & Schwietzer (2020): Community supervision and violent offenders: what the research tells us and how to improve outcomes
- Painter, Davis, and Ulmer (2020): Discretion and disparity under Sentencing Guidelines revisited: the interrelationship between structured sentencing alternatives and guideline decision-making
- Tonry (1998): Intermediate Sanctions in Sentencing Guidelines
- Warren (2009): Evidence-based sentencing: the application of principles of evidence-based practice to state sentencing practice and policy
- Sentencing Alternatives Subgroup – 5.17.2022
- Sentencing Alternatives Subgroup – 5.31.2022
- Sentencing Alternatives Subgroup – 6.14.2022
- Sentencing Alternatives Subgroup – 6.28.2022
Research and Data Resources
Click here to view a list of resources related to the Criminal Sentencing System that have been suggested by Task Force members and/or reviewed and referenced during Task Force meetings and meetings of the working groups.
2022 Task Force Meeting Schedule and Materials
Starting in May, meeting times reflect possible in-person, all-day meetings. Changes will be updated here. There is no meeting in January.
If you would like to receive email notifications about virtual meeting coordinates and meeting materials, please send a request to: sentencing.taskforce.ruckelshaus@wsu.edu
- February 3, 1pm-4:30pm
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- Draft agenda
- Scoring Scenarios
- Criminal History Scoring Overview
- Overview WA Scoring Rules Multipliers
- 2.3.22 CSTF Meeting PowerPoint Presentation and Potential Recommendations:
- CSTF 2.3.22 Meeting Summary
- March 3, 1pm-4:30pm
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- CSTF Draft 3.3.22 Meeting Summary
- Draft agenda
- 3.3.22 CSTF Meeting PowerPoint Presentation and Potential Recommendations
- Background on Aggravators & Mitigators
- Exceptional Sentences Aggravators & Mitigators Adult Sentencing Manual
- Overview of three strikes & two strikes
- Three strikes & Two strikes Offense Lists Adult Sentencing Manual 2020
- April 7, 1pm-4:30pm
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- Draft agenda
- Presentation – 4.7.22
- Three Strikes and Two Strikes
- Three Strikes and Two Strikes Overview
- Offense Lists – Adult Sentencing Manual 2020
- Consecutive and Concurrent Sentencing Policy
- CSTF 4.7.22 Meeting Summary
- May 5, 10am-4:00pm - ZOOM and IN-PERSON
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- Draft agenda
- 5.5.22 Meeting PowerPoint Presentation
- Draft 2022 work plan
- CSTF Operating Procedures
- Draft detailed guide of potential recommendations Vertical Axis
- Draft detailed guide potential recommendations Horizontal Axis
- June 2, 10am-4:00pm - ZOOM and Puyallup
Materials forthcoming.
- July 7, 9am-4:30pm
Materials forthcoming
- August 4, 9am-4:30pm
Materials forthcoming
- September 1, 9am-4:30pm
Materials forthcoming.
- October 6, 9am- 4:30pm
Materials forthcoming
- November 3, 9am-4:30pm
Materials forthcoming.
- December 1, 9am-4:30pm