Federal Sentencing Can Be Made More Just, If the Sentencing Commission Wants to Make It So

Federal Sentencing Can Be Made More Just, If the Sentencing Commission Wants to Make It So

Fifteen Years after the Federal Sentencing Revolution: How Mandatory Minimums Have Undermined Effective and Just Narcotics Sentencing Perspectives on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and Mandatory Sentencing

New Mexico Sentencing Commission

Variably called bias-based policing, racial profiling, or Driving While Black or Brown, the phenomenon of apparent disparate treatment of minorities by police has received considerable attention from the media, academics, politicians, and government organizations in recent years. A common contention is that the history of racial discrimination in the U.S. combined with practices employed by loc...

Alternative Sentencing : Statement Prepared for the United States Sentencing Commission

I appreciate the opportunity to testify before the United States Sentencing Commission regarding alternatives to incarceration. My remarks are intended as practical observations based on: (a) experience gained in my current position as Director of a community corrections program that provides reentry services to persons formerly incarcerated in Federal prisons, and that also serves as an altern...

The Success of Judge Frankel's Sentencing Commission