Lauren Klosinski | August 16, 2019 | Sentencing
An article for Law360 entitled “Risk Assessment Tools Are Not A Failed ‘Minority Report’” discusses the use of risk assessment tools used by judges in criminal cases. The article comes in response to a New York Times op-ed which implied that risk assessment tools make...
Robert Alt | August 8, 2019 | Sentencing
This article was originally published by The Federalist Society. The following is an excerpt. Access the full article here. State legislatures across the country made significant strides in reforming their criminal justice regimes throughout 2018. States revised their...
Darryl K. Brown | August 6, 2019 | Sentencing
On July 15, a Virginia judge sentenced James Fields Jr. to a life sentence, plus 419 years, for killing Heather Heyer at the 2017 Charlottesville white nationalist rally by ramming his car into a crowd.Some may wonder about the point of a centuries-long sentence – far...
Lauren Klosinski | July 30, 2019 | Sentencing
On July 25, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a press release announcing that Attorney General William P. Barr has directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to adopt an addendum to the Federal Execution Protocol and schedule the executions of five death-row inmates...
Kevin Reitz | July 23, 2019 | Sentencing
INTRODUCTION (citations omitted)Incarceration rates (numbers of prisoners per capita) are a basic indicator of how government’s use of the prison sanction permeates into the population as a whole—a concept I will call carceral intensity. If we view incarceration as a...
Margaret Love | July 12, 2019 | Sentencing
For the past several years, the Collateral Consequences Resource Center has been documenting an extraordinary legislative trend aimed at helping individuals overcome the collateral consequences of arrest and conviction. It appears that lawmakers in many states are...
