Vermont is considering the creation of a committee of top law enforcement officials to design a comprehensive plan to reduce the crime rate and offender recidivism over a 10-year period.

Vermont would create a working group, to be known as the "10-10-30 committee," to develop a 10-year plan to decrease selected crime rates by 10 percent and to decrease the number of Vermont offenders confined to correctional facilities by 30 percent.

State Senator John Campbell said a study by the legislature found that the prison population had doubled over the past decade, primarily due to a surge in convictions for nonviolent crimes.

In fiscal 2005, approximately 44 percent of incarcerated males and 76 ...

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