As a matter of recent history in this country, we’re at quite an important moment, where the conversation and political attitudes towards criminal justice policy and sentencing policy seem to be shifting quite dramatically. Members of Congress and policy makers, law makers in state systems are talking a lot about the problems we have created through mass incarceration and mass punitiveness in other respects. This moment in history, I think is particularly fortunate and fortuitous for the Model Penal Code because we are arriving at the point of completion just as this new or changed national debate is occurring. – Kevin Reitz, Project Reporter
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Kevin Reitz
Reporter, Model Penal Code: Sentencing
Kevin Reitz is the James Annenberg La Vea Land Grant Chair in Criminal Procedure Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. In 1993, he organized the pilot meeting of the National Association of Sentencing Commissions, which has gone on to become a nationwide resource for states contemplating or undertaking the process of sentencing reform. He continues to work with NASC and with state sentencing commissions nationwide.
Cecelia M. Klingele
Associate Reporter, Model Penal Code: Sentencing
Cecelia M. Klingele is an Assistant Professor at The University of Wisconsin Law School. Her academic research focuses on criminal justice administration, with an emphasis on community supervision of those on conditional release. She serves as a faculty associate of the Frank J. Remington Center and the Institute for Research on Poverty, and a research affiliate of the University of Minnesota Robina Institute’s Sentencing Law & Policy Program.
Pauline Toboulidis | August 22, 2017 | Sentencing
Model Penal Code: Sentencing Reporters have updated the black letter text of the Proposed Final Draft. When any ALI project is approved at an Annual Meeting, Reporters will update the draft and make editorial changes that were directed or agreed to by the Council or...
Margaret Love | August 18, 2017 | Sentencing
The Collateral Consequences Resource Center is currently finalizing a 50-state report on the availability of relief from the adverse civil effects of a criminal arrest or conviction. Using research from the Restoration of Rights Project (RRP), the report analyzes the...
Kevin Reitz, Cecelia M. Klingele and Jennifer Morinigo | August 14, 2017 | Sentencing
We recently featured a post on the topic of sentencing in juvenile cases. In the post, author Ashley Nellis from The Sentencing Project writes that, “Changing public sentiment regarding the wisdom of sending young people to adult prisons has led policymakers in many...
Sue Burrell | August 4, 2017 | Children and the Law, Sentencing
A fundamental rule of our constitutional system is that a person may not be subjected to extended detention absent a judicial determination of probable cause that he or she committed a crime. In Gerstein v. Pugh, the Supreme Court recognized the Fourth Amendment right...
Ashley Nellis | August 3, 2017 | Children and the Law, Sentencing
Decades of research from the fields of criminology and adolescent brain science find that the decisions made in youth — even very unwise decisions — do not crystallize criminality. Instead, as young people age and mature they develop the capacity to make different...
Pauline Toboulidis | July 26, 2017 | Sentencing
The below information is from a press release issued by the U.S. Sentencing Commission, Office of Legislative & Public Affairs. The United States Sentencing Commission released a new publication—An Overview of Mandatory Minimum Penalties in the Federal Criminal...
