Douglas Cogan

Prez Trump declares April 2018 to be "Second Chance Month"

US District Judge concludes Miller applies to 18-year-old murderer to find his mandatory LWOP sentence violates the Eighth Amendment

Texas woman sentenced to five years in prison (!?!?!) for voting illegally

Seeking reader input for possible blog redesigns/improvements

"The Excessive Fines Clause: Challenging the Modern Debtors' Prison"

Judge Jed Rakoff sentences rapper DMX to one year in federal prison for tax fraud

"What If Prosecutors Wanted to Keep People Out of Prison?"

"Recidivism Among Federal Offenders Receiving Retroactive Sentence Reductions: The 2011 Fair Sentencing Act Guideline Amendment"

Latest update on battles over criminal justice reform inside the Trump Administration

Texas completed fourth execution on 2018

After botched effort last month, Alabama agrees not to try again to execute Doyle Lee Hamm

"The Scale of Misdemeanor Justice"

SCOTUS day for considering rules for prison sentence modification based on changed guidelines

"The War on Drugs Breeds Crafty Traffickers"

Ohio Gov. Kasich commutes yet another death sentence

"Deviancy, Disability, and Dependency: The Forgotten History of Eugenics and Mass Incarceration"

"Prison Crime and the Economics of Incarceration"

New spending bill includes a lot more money for Justice Department to fight drug war even harder

Brennen Center releases new report: "Criminal Justice: An Election Agenda for Candidates, Activists, and Legislators"

En banc Sixth Circuit rejects, with some dubitante, effort to extend Sixth Amendment right to counsel to preindictment plea negotiations

interesting (and important?) new polling data on the death penalty

Noting how Ohio judges and prison officials are sparring over law seeking to reduce prison readmissions

Interesting new US Sentencing Commission analysis of possible impact of Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2017

"Measuring Change: From Rates of Recidivism to Markers of Desistance"