By Alabama Public Radio
Montgomery, AL – The governor also says the bills will help ease overcrowding in state prisons. Lawmakers adjourned Tuesday after passing all but one of the measures in the nine-bill sentencing package. The key bill in the package passed the House 94 to nothing. It would provide judges with a voluntary list of recommended sentences for various crimes. That bill passed the House last session, but died in the Senate. The bills were recommended by the Alabama Sentencing Commission. The commission was created by the Legislature in 2000 because of concerns that sentences for the same crime often varied from court to court and from one part of the state to another.