Edmondson Clears Transformational Justice Act

Attorney General Drew Edmondson today ruled in favor of the state's recently-enacted Transformational Justice Act, a new law designed to encourage partnerships with faith-based and community groups to provide services to the state’s prisoners.

"This is a real victory for the important reform of offering faith-based solutions to the problems that we face in society today," said House Speaker Lance Cargill, R-Harrah, who authored the legislation.

“Government alone doesn’t have the solutions for the problems we face in society. These faith-based programs can make a real differnece in a person’s life in a way that no big-government program ever could. So government should be partnering with charities and faith-based organizations toward these goals, not pushing them away”

Edmondson's opinion found that the new law supports and does not conflict with the duties of the state Board of Corrections.

Share |