Douglas Cogan

Latest analysis and discussion of Ohio criminal justice reform ballot initiative known as Issue 1

"The defendant faces a maximum possible penalty of death, or life without parole, followed by a consecutive sentence of 535 years’ imprisonment."

I am a big fan of clemency and democracy, but....

US Sentencing Commission releases FY 2018 third quarter (repackaged) sentencing data

"Prisoners of Fate: The Challenges of Creating Change for Children of Incarcerated Parents"

South Dakota completes execution of prison guard murderer who relinquished appeals

Plea waivers and ineffectiveness of counsel for failing to appeal come to SCOTUS in Garza v. Idaho

FAMM laments problems in federal prisons while urging Prez Trump to new head for Bureau of Prisons

"Who Locked Us Up? Examining the Social Meaning of Black Punitiveness"

Second Circuit, on third pass of child porn sentence, affirms 25-year prison term it calls "barbaric without being all that unusual"

Is it a given that the end of Jeff Sessions' time as Attorney General are drawing nigh?

Justice Sotomayor issues another lengthy statement in another capital case in which cert is denied

"Mass incarceration isn’t always the issue. Uneven incarceration is."

Following the Charleston script, will federal authorities take the lead in capital prosecution of anti-Semitic mass murderer Robert Bowers?

Attorney General Sessions indicates pipe bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc charged with five federal crimes and facing "only" 48 years in prison

Supreme Court grants cert on Haymond from Tenth Circuit to address when Apprendi and Alleyne meet suprevised release!!

"How ‘End Mass Incarceration’ Became a Slogan for D.A. Candidates"

"Supermajoritarian Criminal Justice"

Notable relists and "petitions of the week" from SCOTUSblog

"How Jeff Sessions Is Undermining Trump’s Prison Reform Agenda"