Lots more notable new reporting and commentary from The Marshall Project

Regular readers surely recall prior times I have flagged the always terrific Marshall Project for producing many great pieces that should be must-reads for sentencing fans.  As I have said before, I rarely have the time or ability to give blog attention to all of the great work done there.  But I could not resist another shout-out post upon seeing in recent days a bunch of pieces with original reporting and commentary that all struck me as particularly blog-worthy (with the last three connected):

• "How Conservatives Learned to Love Free Lawyers for the Poor: By reframing the issue around the evils of big government, Republicans are notching victories that have eluded more liberal legislatures."

• "What To Do With Violent Sex Offenders: The Supreme Court considers whether 'civil commitment' is just prison by another name."

• "Shawna: A Life on the Sex Offender Registry: A young mother struggles with life on the sex offender registry."

• "From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones: In prison for 20 years, Michelle was chosen for Harvard's elite graduate history program. Then she was unchosen."

• "The Taxpayers and Michelle Jones: How her prison education saved us a million bucks"

• "Making Sense of Senseless Violence: A Harvard sociologist on a recent story from The Marshall Project and the ways violence begets more violence."

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