Douglas Cogan

Amicus brief stresses congressional text does not preclude legal change as basis for 3582(c)(1)(a) sentence reduction

"The Trump Executions"

Provocative new empirical paper claims to identify the "most discriminatory" federal sentencing judges

Lots and lots more great new content at great new Inquest website

Highlighting how the Biden Administration could and should start reforming federal BOP

Federal judges expressing some concern about lenient plea deals for some Capitol riot defendants

BJS releases notable new recidivism data for 2012-released state prisons

CCJ releases June 2021 update on "Pandemic, Social Unrest, and Crime in U.S. Cities."

"The Informed Jury"

"Disrupting Death: How Dedicated Capital Defenders Broke Virginia's Machinery of Death"

Is the politics of crime and punishment now different than in our recent history?

Ohio Justice provides insider take on "sentencing by ambush" due to plea bargaining process

Prison Policy Initiative details "Nine ways that states can provide better public defense"

"Just Algorithms: Using Science to Reduce Incarceration and Inform a Jurisprudence of Risk"

What Can You Do If You’ve Been Injured In A Car Accident?

House hearing to explore "How Court-Imposed Fees and Fines Unjustly Burden Vulnerable Communities"

Shouldn't federal prosecutors already be doing what they can to minimize the unjust crack-powder sentencing disparity?

Reviewing Biden Administration's uninspired criminal justice reform efforts

"Death Penalty Exceptionalism and Administrative Law"

US Sentencing Commission releases more detailed "Compassionate Release Data Report" for 2020

"The Boundary Problem of Rights Restoration"

Interesting review of African (and global) trends in capital punishment abolition

"Talking Back in Court"

Across political spectrum, insightful folks saying in insightful ways that Prez Biden must do better on criminal justice reform

As Eleventh Circuit works though ACCA "occasions different" mess, Judge Newson flags Apprendi "prior conviction" issues

Noticing Biden Administration's withdrawal of pursuit of the death penalty in many cases

Seventh Circuit panel states (in dicta?) that vaccine availability "makes it impossible" for COVID risks to create eligibility for compassionate release

BJS releases new reports on "Correctional Populations in the United States, 2019" and "Probation and Parole in the United States, 2019"

House Judiciary Committee votes 36 to 5 to advance the EQUAL Act to reduce federal crack sentences