CCJ’s National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice releases “Impact Report: COVID-19 Testing in State Prisons” April 1, 2021
“Who Controls Criminal Law? Racial Threat and the Adoption of State Sentencing Law, 1975 to 2012” April 1, 2021
Notably split Sixth Circuit panel finds way-above guideline felon-in-possession sentence to be substantively unreasonable April 1, 2021
Might we be getting closer to (needed) new nominees for the “frozen” US Sentencing Commission? March 31, 2021
“Judging by the Cover: On the Relationship Between Media Coverage on Crime and Harshness in Sentencing” March 31, 2021
Fascinating split Fourth Circuit ruling finds lawyer ineffective and 210-month sentence substantively unreasonable for addicted opioid distributor March 30, 2021
“Many Capitol rioters unlikely to serve jail time” because some facing only misdemeanor convictions March 30, 2021
Four notable new short reports on prison populations from the Bureau of Justice Statistics March 30, 2021
Tenth Circuit becomes the latest circuit to embrace a robust view of sentence reduction authority under 3582(c)(1)(A) after FIRST STEP Act March 30, 2021