Douglas Cogan

Heartening coverage of one beneficiary of Ohio Gov DeWine's "Expedited Pardon Project"

Amidst more guns and many more gun crimes (especially murders), can sentencing reforms move forward as media predicts "bloody summer"?

"Mala Prohibita and Proportionality"

High-profile reminder that parole is rarely a given, especially for a prisoner claiming innocence

Most of California DAs file court action challenging new rules expanding good behavior credits to state prisoners

"The Persistence of Penal Disenfranchisement: Suppressing Votes the Old Fashioned Way"

"What's the right age for juvenile criminals to be considered adults? Advocates and some states push it past 20."

In contrast to Ninth Circuit panel, Eleventh Circuit panel gives narrow reading to FIRST-STEP-amended mandatory-minimum safety valve provision

Notable (and huge) sentence reductions used to remedy stacked 924(c) sentences for crooked cops

AG Garland announces new(?) federal effort to reduce violent crime

Timely reminder of US Sentencing Commission's decarceral potential ... when it is functional

"Reducing Mass Incarceration Through Cost Salience: Why Juries Should Be Told the Cost of Incarceration"

"The Power of Parsimony"

Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof to have appeal of his death sentence heard by (unusual) Fourth Circuit panel

"Objective Punishment"

Lengthy lament in SCOTUS cert dissent about execution method litigation

Spotlighting how "death in prison" LWOP cases still get so much less attention than capital punishment

More notable new essays in Brennan Center's "Punitive Excess" series

Ninth Circuit panel interprets FIRST STEP amendment to statutory safety valve to greatly expand who can avoid federal mandatory-minimum sentences

Noticing a lack of pleas, so far, in Capitol riot prosecutions