Douglas Cogan

"What We Got Wrong in the War on Drugs"

"Locking up my generation: Cohort differences in prison spells over the life course"

US Sentencing Commission issues big new report on "The First Step Act of 2018: One Year of Implementation"

"The Price of Criminal Law Skepticism: Ten Functions of the Criminal Law"

Can we somehow arrange for one of the upcoming Prez debates to be entirely about criminal justice issues?

"Does Prison Work? A Comparative Analysis of Contemporary Prison Systems in England and Wales and Finland, 2000 to Present"

Has anyone sentenced to life without parole ever before been granted a full Prez pardon?

Federal government completes its fifth execution of 2020

Has anyone sentenced to life without parole ever before spoken on final night of major political convention?

"Trump’s failed promise of criminal justice reform gives Biden an opening"

An effective (and only partial) look at complicated criminal justice records of Trump and Biden

"The Scale of the COVID-19-Related Jail Population Decline"

Bureau of Justice Statistics releases report on "Correctional Populations in the United States, 2017-2018"

Native American death sentence carried out as feds complete record-setting fourth execution of 2020

"Criminal Law Update: A Survey of State Law Changes in 2019"

Highlighting disorder under an administration trying to lay claim to "law and order"

"Reflections on the Warren Court's Criminal Justice Legacy, Fifty Years Later: What the Wings of a Butterfly and a Yiddish Proverb Teach Me"

Without any dissents, SCOTUS rejects legal claims of Native American scheduled for federal execution today

Two great new pieces providing perspectives on prosecutorial perspectives

Prez Trump grants pardon to Jon Ponder just before his RNC convention speech

"The RNC Can't Figure Out Where It Stands on Criminal Justice Reform"

Spotlighting the still sorry state of federal prisons six months into a COVID pandemic

Amidst seemingly little attention, federal government seemingly poised to carry out two more executions this week

"Climate Change and the Criminal Justice System"

An effective (and only partial) look at complicated criminal justice records of Trump and Biden

"The Scale of the COVID-19-Related Jail Population Decline"

Bureau of Justice Statistics releases report on "Correctional Populations in the United States, 2017-2018"

Native American death sentence carried out as feds complete record-setting fourth execution of 2020

"Criminal Law Update: A Survey of State Law Changes in 2019"

Highlighting disorder under an administration trying to lay claim to "law and order"

"Reflections on the Warren Court's Criminal Justice Legacy, Fifty Years Later: What the Wings of a Butterfly and a Yiddish Proverb Teach Me"