A mid-holiday weekend round-up of various sentencing opinions

I am taking much of the holiday weekend off from blogging (which may make many thankful).  And that provides an excuse to keep up a bit by rounding-up here some opinion pieces that have caught my eye recently:

From Forbes, “Bureau Of Prisons Backtracking On First Step Act Law“

From Governing, “No, Criminal Justice Reform Isn’t Driving Rising Crime“

From the New Republic, “The Turkey Pardon Is a Perfect Emblem of Our Very Dumb Politics“

From the New York Post, “Thank NY’s criminal justice ‘reforms’ for this double murder“

From Rolling Stone, “I’m Serving Life in Prison. It’s a Slow-Motion Death Sentence“

From the Times Union, “Parole reform saved New York money. Invest it in helping people stay out of the criminal justice system.“

From the Wall Street Journal, “Tech Can Keep Ex-Offenders Out of Jail“

And a notable pair of commentaries from a notable pair of commentators at Reason:

From Josh Blackman, “A Reversal in Rahimi Will Be Tougher to Write Than Critics Admit“

From Will Baude, “It’s Not So Hard to Write an Opinion Following Bruen and Reversing in Rahimi