TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Feb 16, 2016

An editorial in The Commercial Appeal supports Gov. Bill Haslam’s 2016-2018 Public Safety Action Plan, which supports tougher penalties against serial domestic-violence offenders. The editorial says that the plan also offers a “common sense” approach for altered sanctions for parole and probation violators that would help reduce the state’s 48 percent recidivism rate.