Lauren Klosinski | December 1, 2020 | Sentencing
On Nov. 9, Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law a bill calling on New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal to set up a program to collect and record data on defendants age 18 or older, including their race, ethnicity, gender and age, and analyze what happens to their...
Brandon Garrett, Travis Seale-Carlisle, Karima Modjadidi and Kristen Renberg | November 12, 2020 | Sentencing
Brandon L. Garrett, Travis Seale-Carlisle, Karima Modjadidi, and Kristen Renberg of Duke University School of Law have posted “Life Without Parole Sentencing in North Carolina” (North Carolina Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract:What explains the...
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...
