Mandatory minimum sentencing was born from a political era obsessed with being “tough on crime” and completely…
For decades, mandatory minimum sentences have been the sledgehammer of American criminal justice; blunt, heavy, and devastating. They strip…
A justice system does not become smarter by getting harsher. When policy abandons evidence in favor of…
Sentencing reform does not happen only through slogans or election cycles. It also happens through who gets…
Michigan’s sentencing guidelines are supposed to create structure. The harder question is who is interpreting that structure,…
Convictions, be it felony or misdemeanor, come with collateral consequences. And here’s the part no one tells…
Key Takeaways The four goals of criminal sentencing — retribution, rehabilitation, deterrence, incapacitation — often fail to…
I expected the Martha Stewart documentary to be background noise while I worked on my doctorate coursework….
In America, as soon as we are old enough to put our right hands over our hearts,…
Over 95% of criminal convictions in the United States are the result of guilty pleas — not…
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