Welcome to the homepage of the Missouri Sentencing Advisory Commission (MOSAC). The MOSAC is dedicated to supporting public safety, fairness and effectiveness in criminal sentencing.

• Publishes the Recommended Sentencing User's Guide annually. The recommended sentences are based upon the actual sentencing practices of Missouri trial judges. Recommended sentences for felony offenses are available on the automated sentencing feature of this Web site.
• Conducts statistical research and analysis of Missouri's offender population including sentence types and lengths, recidivism rates and prison populations.
• Developed, in cooperation with Probation and Parole, the Sentencing Assessment Report to provide judges and others involved in with sentencing and corrections with useful information about the offender; the offender's risk of re-offending; and program, treatment and supervision options available in the community and in prison.

• Volume 2, Issue 2: This bulletin provides an excerpt from Chief Justice William Ray Price's State of Judiciary speech about the overuse of prisons for nonviolent offenders.
• Volume 2, Issue 1: This bulletin highlights some key findings of the Missouri Sentencing Commission's 2009 Biennial Report.
• Previous Issues
  

• April 2009
  
• February 2009