Douglas Cogan

"Beyond Bias: Re-Imagining the Terms of ‘Ethical AI’ in Criminal Law"

Alabama completes execution of Christopher Price seven weeks after delay based on dispute over execution methods

"Sharkfests and Databases: Crowdsourcing Plea Bargains"

With legislative override of Gov veto, New Hampshire formally repeals its death penalty

Bureau of Justice Statistics releases "Recidivism of Sex Offenders Released from State Prison: A 9-Year Follow-Up (2005-14)"

New opportunities to work on criminal justice reform at The Justice Collaborative

"Representative Defendants"

Oklahoma makes retroactive its 2016 defelonization reform initiative

Ohio officials apparently seeking to avoid any paper trail as it tries to reboot its machinery of death

Notable comments in notable SCOTUS opinions addressing First Amendment retaliatory arrest claims

Is Joe Biden really "one of the most progressive federal lawmakers in terms of criminal justice policy"?

Three years after Michigan sex offender law deemed punitive and unconstitutional for retroactive application, law's application and revision still uncertain

Is Prez Trump gearing up for a big Memorial Day clemency push for servicemembers?

Florida completes execution of killer of 10 women in 1984

"Equal justice depends on properly funding public defenders"

Making the case, now a quarter century after the 1994 Crime Bill, for the Reverse Mass Incarceration Act

"The Second Step Act should give white-collar criminals a chance after release"

Spotlighting racial divides in perceptions of crime and punishment

Two notable new publications on how criminal justice contacts impact schooling and employment realities

Shouldn't it now constitutional problematic for extreme LWOP sentences to be preserved after legislative changes to three-strikes laws?

Exciting agenda for "Rewriting the Sentence Summit on Alternatives to Incarceration"

Has anyone kept track of total ACCA case GVRs through the years (or estimated total time spent on ACCA churn)?

Spotlighting eagerness to elect state judges as well as prosecutors committed to criminal justice reform