Douglas Cogan

"Proposed Public Health and Public Safety Pathways for Criminal Justice System Responses to Covid-19"

Despite a short work week, still another long list of new COVID-influenced federal sentence reductions using § 3582(c)(1)(A)

"Unconstitutional Incarceration: Applying Strict Scrutiny to Criminal Sentences"

"The Case for a Federal Criminal Court System (and Sentencing Reform)"

Weekend round-up of array of prison stories and commentary in incarceration nation

"Not Letting Felons Vote Damages Democracy for All Citizens"

Split Sixth Circuit panel finds above-guideline illegal reentry sentence to be substantively unreasonable

Federal inmate population, as reported by BOP, continues steady decline (which continues my wondering about data)

How Twitter May be Trampling Trump’s Civil Rights

With his return to blogging, is Bill Otis no longer a potential nominee for the US Sentencing Commission?

Reviewing a handful of the latest ugly prison pandemic headlines

Council on Criminal Justice releases big new reform report titled "Next Steps: An Agenda for Federal Action on Safety and Justice"

The new death penalty: COVID has now killed more than 500 US prisoners and prison staff according to UCLA Law data

"Bill Barr Promised to Release Prisoners Threatened by Coronavirus — Even as the Feds Secretly Made It Harder for Them to Get Out"

Noticing COVID impacts though drug supply chains and enforcement

SCOTUS, by 6-3 vote, refuses to stay original federal judicial order to transfer vulnerable prisoners "out of Elkton through any means"

With reopenings, might coming months bring big crime spike (and will modest jail and prison releases be blamed)?

Memorializing more drug war casualties: updating the federal drug sentences that COVID-19 turned into death sentences

Is the number of federal prisoners about to spike up as BOP moves nearly 7000 new inmates into federal facilities?

Federal judge strikes down Florida's "unconstitutional pay-to-vote system" for former offenders

"Carceral Trauma and Disability Law"