End of week round-up with a wide array of criminal justice and sentencing pieces
The weather contributes to the feeling that we are in the so-called dog days of summer, and this week had plenty of press dogs barking about a lot of criminal justice and sentencing topics. As always, this lengthy list is still just an abridged review of pieces that caught my eye in these busy times:
From The 19th, “From arrest to release, there’s a new effort to investigate the experiences of incarcerated women“
From the ABA Journal, “Chemerinsky: These Supreme Court sleeper cases will have lasting impact“
From Al Jazeera, “What is the controversy behind Louisiana’s new surgical castration law?“
From the AP, “Court filings provide additional details of the US’ first nitrogen gas execution“
From Axios, “Louisiana eliminates parole and reduces “good time” early release“
From Bloomberg Law, “DOJ Starts Pilot to Pay Whistleblowers for White-Collar Tips“
From The Bulwark, “Criminal Justice Reform: Trump’s Indifference vs. Harris’s Mixed Record“
From the Davis Vanguard, “Study Suggests Deadly Role Race Plays in California Capital Sentencing Decisions, Charging, ‘Racial Factors Have Infected California Capital Sentencing’“
From The Hill, “Harris faces calls to address mass incarceration, drop prosecutor vs. criminal line“
From The Marshall Project, “Facing Rollbacks, Criminal Justice Reformers Argue Policies Make People Safer“
From MLive, “Frail inmates have better shot at early release from Michigan prisons under updated law“
From NBC News, “Ex-AG Holder: Accused 9/11 terrorists avoid death row because of ‘political hacks’ who blocked a U.S. trial“
From NJ Spotlight News, “NJ clemency review process is ‘a potent model for national change’”
From the Wall Street Journal, “For Big Companies, Felony Convictions Are a Mere Footnote“
From the Washington Post, “Study examines link between family incarceration, children’s health“
From WMNF, “Jeb Bush says he regrets not revamping the death penalty when he was Florida governor“