Recent decades has brought considerable concerns about so-called "school-to-prison" pipelines, a term meant to lament certain educational policies and practices that serve to enhance the prosepcts of ...

The title of this post is the title of this article authored by Cassia Spohn in the June 2025 issue of the Criminal Law Forum. (As noted in this prior post, this journal issue is devoted to ...

This New York Times opinion piece, titled "Governors, Use Your Clemency Powers" and authored by Steve Zeidman, focuses on the need for states' chief executives to step up their clemency work. The ...

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The title of this post is the title of this new article now available via SSRN and authored by Charles Hintz. Here is its abstract: Federal habeas is a mess. The reason is the current doctrine’s ...

The US Sentencing Commission in recent weeks has released a bunch more of its terrific "Quick Facts" publications. As regular readers know, I find so very interesting all the these short data ...

This lengthy new Slate commentary laments an array of policy and practical developments in federal prisons to argue that "[s]ince his first day in office, the Trump administration has thrown the lives ...

I have lately been making it a quarterly habit of highlighted essays from Inquest, "a decarceral brainstorm," and so here is the latest installment of just some recent pieces on an array of topics ...

The folks at The Sentencing Project released this new 36-page report about two states' experiences with in-prison voting. Here are excerpts from the report's executive symmary: Only two U.S. states – ...

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