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  • Prosecutors: Too few repeat drunken drivers get prison time(MN liberal weenie judges)

    04/10/2006 1:12:30 PM PDT · by Rakkasan1 · 12 replies · 440+ views
    Grand Forks Herald ^ | 4-10-06 | ap
    ST. PAUL - Despite a tough law designed to get chronic drunken drivers off the roads, more than 40 percent of felony DWI offenders avoid prison time and instead get sent to county jails for a year or less, according to court records. Prosecutors say judges aren't handing down tough enough sentences, as they had hoped when the law took effect in 2002. In 2004, 43 percent of 222 DWI felons got a year or less in jail, according to statewide court data. From the start of the law through mid-2005, 41 percent got less than three years in prison,...