Rounding up another set of notable headlines on all sort of sentencing-related topics
Catching up after a week mostly on the road, I noticed lots of headlines and stories that seemed worth flagging in a quicj round-up. So here goes:
From the Free Press, “Why I Changed My Mind About the Death Penalty“
From the Houston Chronicle, “West Texas DA could face more than 5 years in prison for smoking weed on TikTok to protest THC ban“
From the Iowa Capital Dispatch, “Imprisoned Iowa child-killer seeks deportation, claiming he’s an ‘illegal alien’“
From Law360, “Sentencing Commission Plans To Reassess Fraud Guidelines“
From the Marshall Project, “How Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Will Slash Health Coverage for People Leaving Prison“
From the Missouri Independent, “Missouri math: How a 23-year sentence adds up to more than 40 years in prison“
From MSNBC, “5 takeaways and questions from Marjorie Taylor Greene’s George Santos commutation push“
From the New York Post, “Don’t let Diddy escape serving hard time in prison“
From Reason, “Why Ghislaine Maxwell’s Transfer to a Minimum-Security Prison Camp Stinks“