Douglas Cogan

Does federal statutory sentencing reform become a bit more likely if Senator Tom Cotton were to become CIA Director?

"Finality and the Capital/Non-Capital Punishment Divide"

Might we soon see Top 10 rankings of state criminal justice systems emerging from the Bureau of Justice Statistics?

"Disrupting the Cycle: Reimagining the Prosecutor’s Role in Reentry - A Guide to Best Practices"

AG Sessions announces stepped up efforts to address opioid crisis

Anyone have hot sentencing takes on the Supreme Court's big Fourth Amendment Carpenter case being argued today?

"Looking Criminal and the Presumption of Dangerousness: Afrocentric Facial Features, Skin Tone, And Criminal Justice"

"The Law of Abolition"

"Has Plea Bargaining Destroyed the Jury Trial?"

Record sex-trafficking sentence, 472 years of imprisonment, imposed in Colorado court

Ohio getting started on Justice Reinvestment 2.0 to confront latest criminal justice challenges

Interesting Eighth Amendment attack waged against extreme application of Tennessee's "Drug Free School Zone" law

Is California finally going to get it machinery of death operational come 2018?

"What Rape Reform Needs: More Convictions, Less Punishment"

South African court more than doubles prison sentence of Oscar Pistorius

"Furman and Finitude"

Does and should anyone care about just how and where child molester/gymnastics coach Larry Nassar rots in prison?

Louisiana justice gets a bit too candid expressing his views about capital punishment

"Assessing and Responding to the Recent Homicide Rise in the United States"

Tennessee judge formally reprimanded for offering reduced jail time for defendants agreeing to vasectomy or birth control implant