Highligthting series of essays about latest USSG amendments from Sentencing Matters Substack

It has been a little while since I highlighted here posts from the Sentencing Matters Substack, though I hope readers are keeping up with (and are subscribed to) the SMS action that usually appears as long-form essays posted at least one a week.  I have held off on posting here about some recent SMS entries in part because my co-poster, Jonathan Wroblewski, has been in the midst of an epic, multi-part series of essays on the 2024-25 US Sentencing Commission guideline amendment year.  That series is now complete, and it comprises five must-read posts. Here they are assembled from start to finish:

Did the Sentencing Commission Just Make the Guidelines Even Worse?

Retroactivity and Other Second Looks

Lawyers, Linguists, Computer Scientists, and the Meaning of “Physically Restrained”

The Failure of Drug Sentencing Policy Reform

A Better Approach to Updating, Restructuring, and Simplifying the Sentencing Guidelines Manual

There is far too much in each of these essays to allow for ready summarization, so I have to be content here to just urge everyone interested in federal sentencing reform and practice to read the entire series.  Especially with the Sentencing Matters Substack up and running now for about a year, I am quite pleased and quite grateful that Jonathan Wroblewski has made sure, as evidenced by this latest series, that SMS adds richness and depth to how we think about sentencing (and other) issues in these dynamic times.