5 days ago · This agenda presents crucial, targeted measures the Trump administration and Congress should champion over the next four years to prevent crime, reduce incarceration, improve oversight, save taxpayer dollars, and promote the successful reentry of formerly incarcerated people. The recommendations include ways to improve the federal criminal justice system, where the president and Congress can ...

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5 days ago · Most of the case dispositions on this morning's Supreme Court's order list are cert denials, though there are a couple of items of interest for sentencing and criminal justice fans. Second, Justice Thiomas, joined by Justice Alito, dissented from the denial of certiorari in a criminal case from ...

5 days ago · « A couple of interesting items on latest SCOTUS order list | Main | Prison Policy Initiative releases "Bad Behavior: How prison disciplinary policies manufacture misconduct" » January 27, 2025 "The Right To A Jury And The Rise Of Guilty Pleas Across Common Law Countries" The title of this post is the title of this new essay authored by Carissa Byrne Hessick now available via SSRN. Here is ...

4 days ago · « Prison Policy Initiative releases "Bad Behavior: How prison disciplinary policies manufacture misconduct" | Main January 28, 2025 "Early Termination: Shortening Federal Supervision Terms Without Endangering Public Safety" The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Thomas Cohen available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: In the U.S. federal system, courts have the ...

Jan 23, 2025 · « Prez Trump pardons two DC police officers convicted for deadly chase and coverup | Main | Latest CCJ accounting details "Crime Trends in U.S. Cities: Year-End 2024 Update" » January 23, 2025 "Is Death Different?" The title of this post is the title of this notable new paper authored by Jacob Bronsther now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: This Article attempts to unite the ...

Jun 28, 2004 · « AG nominee Pam Bondi talks up First Step Act and criminal justice reform | Main | Given latest SCOTUS review of civil proof burdens, still wondering about criminal sentence increase standards » January 16, 2025 AG Garland rescinds federal execution protocol citing "risk of pain and suffering" in using pentobarbital for lethal injection Via this new substack post by Chris Geidner, I see ...

Jun 28, 2004 · « Interesting accounting of "6 areas of uncertainty" regarding Jan 6 clemency plans | Main | "Is Prison Abolitionism Self-Defeating?" » January 14, 2025 Sleeper or dud? False or misleading? More questions than answers in SCOTUS argument over federal false statement law The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Thompson v. US, which has the potential to be a major white-collar criminal ...

Jun 28, 2004 · « "Booker at 20": some perspectives by the numbers | Main | Sleeper or dud? False or misleading? More questions than answers in SCOTUS argument over federal false statement law » January 14, 2025 Interesting accounting of "6 areas of uncertainty" regarding Jan 6 clemency plans The day after Donald Trump was elected to serve a second term in the Oval Office, I asked in this post "How might ...

Dec 10, 2024 · « "Prohibition Constitutionalism" | Main | BJS releases "Federal Prisoner Statistics Collected Under the First Step Act, 2024" » December 10, 2024 New HBO documentary, "Nature of the Crime," examines parole process through two New York murder cases This short New York Times review flags a new documentary premeiring on Max tonight that seem worth checking out. Here is the start of the NYT ...