Douglas Cogan

"Resentencing of Juvenile Lifers: The Philadelphia Experience"

Noteworthy federal prison numbers, news and notes as an April like no other comes to a close

Bureau of Justice Statistics, reporting its "new" data from end of 2018, highlights "US Imprisonment Rate At Its Lowest Since 1996"

From drug sentences to death sentences: documenting arbitrary and capricious drug war casualties

Catching up on lots more new sentencing and punishment scholarship

"Length of Incarceration and Recidivism"

The sad details of the first woman in federal prison to die from COVID-19

Texas postpones a sixth execution due to coronavirus

More than a dozen new grants of federal sentence reductions using § 3582(c)(1)(A), including another based on stacking/disparity/trial penalty concerns

Feds appealing last week's judicial order to transfer vulnerable prisoners "out of Elkton through any means"

Federal judge orders more social distancing, but does not mandate more releases, for Cook County Jail in Chicago

SCOTUS dismisses NYC Second Amendment case as moot (and Justice Alito dismisses public safety claims with gun rights at issue)

A dozen GVRs based on Ramos (with Justice Alito always commenting along the way, and Justice Thomas dissenting in a few)

The latest "official" (and hinky?) COVID numbers from the federal Bureau of Prisons

Reviewing some more national and local accounts of (mostly declining) crime rates during a pandemic

Mass COVID infections thanks to mass incarceration ... but hoping it might lead to mass increase in understanding this virus

"Protecting Rural Jails From Coronavirus"

Some exhausted musings on the so-called "exhaustion" procedural requirement for sentence-reduction motions under § 3582(c)(1)(A)

"Feds again shift guidance on prisoner releases due to coronavirus"