Editorial Transparency: This article references sentencing patterns in Barry County, Michigan, including cases adjudicated by 5th Circuit…
When someone walks out of jail or prison, they are technically free. But reentry often comes without…
Legislative Watch: Senate Bill 592 (2025) passed the Senate and is currently in the House; it seeks…
Guest Contributor · Ally Micelli This article appears under Ally Micelli’s byline on Clutch Justice. The body…
Predictive sentencing sounds clinical, efficient, maybe even neutral. But once punishment starts leaning on probability models, the…
Appellate intervention is supposed to mean correction. In Barry County, it keeps looking more like a suggestion…
The jury trial has been replaced, almost exclusively, by a system of secret plea-bargaining negotiations behind closed…
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…
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