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 ...

This new ABC News piece reports that the "judge who oversaw the trial of Sean 'Diddy' Combs has asked both sides in the case to provide him with sentencing information ahead of the scheduled October ...

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 ...

This lengthy new Slate commentary laments an array of policy and practical developments in federal prisons to argue that "[s]ince his first day in office, the Trump administration has thrown the lives ...

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The title of this post is the title of this new essay now available via SSRN authored by Christopher Slobogin. Here is its abstract: Expert opinion about dangerousness — the risk of reoffending — is ...

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As noted in this prior post, the US Sentencing Commission released in early June this Federal Register notice of its possible policy priorities for the guideline amendment cycle ending May 1, 2026.

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