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.
Douglas Berman | November 11, 2020 | Children and the Law, Sentencing
This post was originally published on the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog on Oct. 11, 2020. On Friday, the Supreme Court of Arizona handed down a unanimous rejection of claims by multiple juvenile offenders subject to de facto life sentences for multiple sentences in...
Shima Baradaran Baughman and Megan Wright | November 5, 2020 | Sentencing
Shima Baradaran Baughman of the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law and Megan S. Wright of Penn State Law have posted “Prosecutors and Mass Incarceration” (Southern California Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: It has long been...
Margaret Love and David Schlussel | October 23, 2020 | Sentencing
We are pleased to release a new report describing the present landscape of laws in the United States aimed at restoring rights and opportunities after an arrest or conviction. This report, titled The Many Roads to Reintegration, is an update and refresh of our...
Jenny E. Carroll | October 16, 2020 | Sentencing
Jenny E. Carroll of University of the University of Alabama School of Law has posted Beyond Bail (Florida Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: From the proliferation of community bail funds to the implementation of new risk assessment tools to the...
Aya Gruber | October 14, 2020 | Sentencing, Sexual Assault
Aya Gruber of University of Colorado Law School has posted #MeToo and Mass Incarceration (Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: This Symposium Guest Editor’s Note is an adapted version of the Introduction to The Feminist War on Crime:...
Student Training & Education in Public Service (STEPS) | October 6, 2020 | Sentencing
Facts:2.3 million prisoners: That is how many Americans are currently incarcerated, but that’s’ not the whole picture. Americans “go to jail” 10.6 million times a year.#1 in the world: With only 5% of the world’s population, America holds ¼ of the world’s incarcerated...
