 By removing the incentive to break up families, the Allen welfare reform allowed two parent households the same time to receive benefits as single parents.Because this law reversed the incentive of being a single parent TANF cases represented by two parent households increased by over 180 percent.In November 1993, Allen's campaign promise to abolish parole for those convicted of a felony helped drive him to a landslide victory after trailing from a 33 percent point deficit in the polls to Democrat Mary Sue Terry,

Truth-in-sentencing (TIS) and abolition of parole were ultimately passed in a Special Session of the General Assembly with the House voting 89–7 and the Senate voting 34–4 in favor of the measure.