Direct Answer In Michigan, two people convicted of the same offense under similar circumstances can receive vastly…
Direct Answer Data consistently shows that people of color and those without financial means receive harsher sentences…
This is a guest contribution by Ally Micelli, exploring the systemic contradictions within the American legal system….
Direct Answer NowKalamazoo and Kalamazoo Defender have launched the Kalamazoo Court Observers program — a community-based accountability…
Direct Answer Habitual offender laws — the legal predecessors to modern three-strikes sentencing — did not originate…
Predictive sentencing sounds clinical, efficient, maybe even neutral. But once punishment starts leaning on probability models, the…
Michigan’s sentencing guidelines are supposed to create structure. The harder question is who is interpreting that structure,…
Key Takeaways The four goals of criminal sentencing — retribution, rehabilitation, deterrence, incapacitation — often fail to…
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