Douglas Cogan

"Prisons Are Covid-19 Hotbeds. When Should Inmates Get the Vaccine?"

Reviewing again links between lead exposure and crime rates

Two criminal cases up for SCOTUS oral argument this week

Reviewing CJUTF Recommendations: will the Biden Administration go all in with progressive prosecutors?

"The Legality of Presidential Self-Pardons"

"Misaligned incentives and the scale of incarceration in the United States"

In praise of Judge Stephanos Bibas ... for his copious sentencing scholarship

Exploring what Prez-elect Biden might (or might not) get done for criminal justice reforms

Prez Trump grants pardon to Michael Flynn ... are a lot more to come?

"Here's One Thing Republicans and Democrats Agree on: Criminal Justice Reform"

Second Circuit panel affirms 55-year federalsentence for 15-year-old while lamenting the "unavailability of parole"

Two different takes on Prez Trump's clemency record as his term nears conclusion

"Fake News, Real Policy: Combatting Fear And Misinformation In Criminal Justice"

Great discussions of progressive prosecution in latest issue of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

New Sentencing Project fact sheet on "Incarcerated Women and Girls"

New Sentencing Project fact sheet on "Incarcerated Women and Girls"

Reviewing Criminal Justice Unity Task Force Recommendations: a new series to welcome a new President

"Some Modest Proposals for a Progressive Prosecutor"

Highlighting the need for second-chance sentencing reforms

Notable review of New York's recent parole realities

"Therapeutic Discipline: Drug Courts, Foucault, and the Power of the Normalizing Gaze"

"What the data says (and doesn’t say) about crime in the United States"

Terrific coverage at CCRC as "Marijuana expungement accelerates across the country"

US Department of Justice sets three more execution dates, including for the only woman on federal death row

NACDL continuing great work spotlighting the ugly trial penalty now through compelling clemency petitions