The Council of State Governments Justice Center has produced a notable new report titled "The Supervision Violations and Their Impact on Incarceration." This CSG webpage provides this overview of the ...

As reported in this AP article, a "man convicted of the 1994 killings of his wife and their two children became the ninth person put to death in Florida this year, his death Thursday marking a state ...

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Regular readers know, based on many prior posts here, that police departments in cities nationwide were reporting crime declines throughout 2024 (and are continuing to do so into 2025). Yesterday, the ...

Black was convicted in the 1988 shooting deaths of his girlfriend Angela Clay, 29, and her two daughters, Latoya Clay, 9, and Lakeisha Clay, 6. Prosecutors said he was in a jealous rage when he shot ...

August 4, 2025 "The Most Important Sentencing Conference You May Have Never Heard Of" The title of this post is the t ...

The proportion of convictions that are wrongful could easily be more than half. At least the pandemic is over, so they can no longer give people the threat of likely covid death while waiting in jail ...

From The Marshall Project, " Trump Flaunts Pardon Rules — and Costs Victims and Taxpayers More Than $1 Billion " In the body of your email, please indicate if you are a professor, student, prosecutor, ...

A busy summer continues for the US Sentencing Commission. A couple of weeks ago, as detailed here, the Commission conducted a "Public Hearing on Retroactivity" to "gather testimony from invited ...

The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Alexandra Natapoff and now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: ...