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First Circuit panel reverses death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Big new ACLU and HRW report details "How Probation and Parole Feed Mass Incarceration in the United States"

"The Prisoner and the Polity"

US Department of Justice sets another execution date for last week of August

Fascinating Oklahoma initiative seeking to block non-violent prior convictions from enhancing statutory range of punishment qualifies for ballot

Federal prison population, per BOP reporting, now down to 157,862

"Will The Reckoning Over Racist Names Include These Prisons?"

"Visualizing the racial disparities in mass incarceration"

Council on Criminal Justice launches "National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice"

How Google’s Work from Home Order is Likely Going to Become the Norm

Notable criminal justice reform discussion in draft 2020 Democratic Party Platform

"Death Row Narratives: A Qualitative Analysis of Mental Health Issues Found in Death Row Inmate Blog Entries"

US Sentencing Commission publishes "Federal Probation and Supervised Release Violations"

New poll highlights how quickly many have rising concerns about rising crime

At resentencing, Senator Rand Paul's attacker gets additional 13 months (eight to be served in federal prison, six in home confinement)

Deputy AG defends federal executions that "operated entirely within the law"

"Decarceration and Crime During COVID-19"

Looking for broader relief and reforms for elderly prisoners in wake of Roger Stone clemency

A century after his birth, just a few choice quotes to celebrate Marvin Frankel, father of sentencing reform

Is consideration of gender a must or a no-no in risk assessment tools?