New resources from The Sentencing Project

I just noticed that The Sentencing Project, a non-profit organization which does terrific research and advocacy work on a range of criminal justice issues, has on its website new resources on Blakely and on the scope of imprisonment.

On a page appropriately titled “Awaiting the Supreme Court,” Executive Director Malcolm Young provides extensive background on Blakely and the pending Booker and Fanfan.  This discussion of the cases also effectively integrates (and links to) other important recent sentencing reform developments.

And a document entitled “New Prison Figures: Rising Population Despite Falling Crime Rates” provides an effective and compelling summary of the latest prison data released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics last month (discussed here).  The document also discusses nationwide sentencing developments and has an amazing final graph of different countries’ incarcertaion rates (which shows that the US rate of incarceration is more than 5 times China’s, more than 10 times Japan’s and more than 20 times India’s rate of incarceration).