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Recent decades has brought considerable concerns about so-called "school-to-prison" pipelines, a term meant to lament certain educational policies and practices that serve to enhance the prosepcts of ...

The title of this post is the title of this article authored by Cassia Spohn in the June 2025 issue of the Criminal Law Forum. (As noted in this prior post, this journal issue is devoted to ...

The title of this post is the title of this new article now available via SSRN and authored by Charles Hintz. Here is its abstract: Federal habeas is a mess. The reason is the current doctrine’s ...

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This New York Times opinion piece, titled "Governors, Use Your Clemency Powers" and authored by Steve Zeidman, focuses on the need for states' chief executives to step up their clemency work. The ...

The US Sentencing Commission in recent weeks has released a bunch more of its terrific "Quick Facts" publications. As regular readers know, I find so very interesting all the these short data ...

I have lately been making it a quarterly habit of highlighted essays from Inquest, "a decarceral brainstorm," and so here is the latest installment of just some recent pieces on an array of topics ...

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Eighteen month ago, as reported in this post, the full en banc Third Circuit found unconstitutional, on the basis of the landmark Second Amendment Bruen opinion, the application of federal ...

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The Kentucky case reads like a long shot. Statutory habeas is not the same thing as constitutional habeas. The mere fact that there is a judgement from a court of competent jurisdiction is enough to ...