Too often, sentencing decisions are treated as sterile calculations—months, years, guidelines, ranges. What gets erased in that…
Editorial Transparency Requests for comment were not returned. This piece is based on court records, publicly available…
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,…
Dyanna Castañeda Policarpio’s Behind and Beyond Bars: Children of Incarcerated Parents is one of those pieces that…
Key Takeaways The four goals of criminal sentencing — retribution, rehabilitation, deterrence, incapacitation — often fail to…
Legislative Update — Bill Did Not Become Law This piece was written December 17, 2024 — the…
Update — January 2026 For the latest Michigan Supreme Court decision on Schipper’s upward departures, read the…
Fresh Ideas Series The Classical School of criminology argues that law must achieve balance between fairness and…
Fresh Ideas Series In 2021, while completing master’s coursework in Criminal Justice at Purdue University Global, I…
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