Pamela Metzger and Greg Guggenmos | February 4, 2021 | Sentencing
This article was originally published by The University of Chicago Law Review Online. The following is the introduction. Footnotes have been omitted. The COVID-19 pandemic is imposing typically rural practice constraints on the United States’ urban and suburban...
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...
James M. Doyle | August 26, 2019 | Sentencing
In a recent New York Times op ed piece, James Forman, Jr. and Sarah Lustbader pose the question, “What can we do to shrink our prison population, the world’s largest?”Their essay’s title, “Every D.A. in America Should Open a Sentence Review Unit,” provides one...
Kevin Reitz | July 23, 2019 | Sentencing
INTRODUCTION (citations omitted)Incarceration rates (numbers of prisoners per capita) are a basic indicator of how government’s use of the prison sanction permeates into the population as a whole—a concept I will call carceral intensity. If we view incarceration as a...
