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Another look at the realities of more offenders aging and dying in prison

How Does Living Overseas Impact Your FBAR and FATCA Obligations?

Yale Law School clinic report looks at "Parole Revocation in Connecticut: Opportunities to Reduce Incarceration"

SCOTUS grants cert on a bunch of criminal cases, including at least one possible exciting sentencing case

US Sentencing Commission releases big new report on "Federal Alternative-to-Incarceration Court Programs"

"When ‘Not Guilty’ Is a Life Sentence"

Not the First Time Google Abused Such Power?

Should New Jersey be more regularly championed for its profound success in reducing prison populations and crime rates?

Grover Norquist calls criminal justice reform one of the "conservative movement’s most important recent accomplishments"

"Will SCOTUS Let Fear of Sex Offenders Trump Justice?"

Thoughtful new Vox commentaries on modern incarceration and its contexts

Acting DEA head officially resigns

DOJ seeking DC Circuit en banc review of panel ruling finding 30-year mandatory minimums unconstitutionally excessive for Blackwater contractors who killed Iraqis

Alliance for Justice assails Third Circuit nominee Stephanos Bibas for his criminal justice work and writings

What is the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act?

"Retributive Justifications for Jail Diversion of Individuals with Mental Disorder"

Reviewing the racial bias and other concerns surrounding Georgia's planned execution of Keith Tharpe

What Expats Should Know About Their U.S. Tax Obligations

Lots more notable new reporting and commentary from The Marshall Project

Anthony Weiner given 21 months in federal prison after his plea to "transferring obscene material to a minor"

Official FBI crime data confirms that 2016 saw another notable increase in violent crime and further reductions in property crime

Terrific review of SCOTUS petitions to watch from folks at In Justice Today

On eve of federal sentencing, any final predictions (or desires) for Anthony Weiner's punishment for underage sexting?

"Mitigating America’s Mass Incarceration Crisis Without Compromising Community Protection: Expanding the Role of Rehabilitation in Sentencing"

Discussing opioid epidemic, AG Sessions says he is "convinced this is a winnable war"

"Legal vs. Factual Normative Questions & the True Scope of Ring"

Are Dual Citizens Required to File FBARs?

Ohio intermediate appeals court, finding functional LWOP sentence excessive for multiple burglaries, cuts 50 years off term

Federal prosecutors say Anthony Weiner merits years in prison for his online sexual offense

Interesting account of gender discrimination in Wyoming alternative sentencing boot camp program

"Does barring sex offenders from church violate RFRA?"