Mark Sanford on Crime Republican SC Governor; previously Representative (SC-1)

End parole for repeat violent offenders

Indicate which principles you support to address crime.
• Support contracting with private sector firms to build and/or manage state prisons.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills.
• End parole for repeat violent offenders.
• Require all felons serve at least 85 percent of their sentences.
• Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
• Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.

Voted YES on funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.

Voted NO on more prosecution and sentencing for juvenile crime.

Voted NO on maintaining right of habeas corpus in Death Penalty Appeals.

Voted YES on making federal death penalty appeals harder.

More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty.

[As part of the Contract with America, within 100 days we pledge to bring to the House Floor the following bill]:

The Taking Back Our Streets Act:
An anti-crime package including stronger truth in sentencing, “good faith” exclusionary rule exemptions, effective death penalty provisions, and cuts in social spending from this summer’s crime bill to fund prison construction and additional law enforcement to keep people secure in their neighborhoods and kids safe in their schools.