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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2024) 36 (3): 151–152.
Published: 01 February 2024
... members an approach that recognizes harm, addresses the needs of people in a humane way, and increases public safety. Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion/Let Everyone Advance with Dignity (LEAD) is that response. Established in 2011 in Seattle in response to the failed War on Drugs, and its disparate...
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Published: 01 May 2025
FIGURE 5 Path of uncertainty: the sequence of experiences that lead to disparate sentencing outcomes for Ecuadorian and Colombian mariners with no criminal history who set out to sea between FY2014–20 on boats with over >450 kg of powder cocaine ( n = 990), showing sentence in months ( mean
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Letter to House Judiciary Committee Members Urging “No” Vote on FIRST STEP Act
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2018) 31 (2): 144–148.
Published: 01 December 2018
... completed, vesting at the end of each year. Earned time credits that lead to actual sentence reductions earlier release from con nement altogether are powerful incentives for participation and meaningful rewards for individuals committed to their personal rehabilitation and reentry.8 Automatic...
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Sentencing to Drug Court: Tailoring the Program to the Participant Through Judicial Education and Oversight
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2021) 34 (1): 63–70.
Published: 01 October 2021
... that can harm, rather than help, an increasing number of participants. Improper drug court admissions and heavy use of jail sanctioning lead to worse outcomes for participants—and to suspicion toward drug courts among the criminal justice reform movement of which drug courts aim to be a part. While...
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Revenue Generation Through Financial Sanctions in the Prison Industrial Complex: Reflections from My Experiences in New Jersey
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2022) 34 (2-3): 200–202.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Stephon Whitley Abstract America has yet to address mass incarceration properly. Here we are in 2022, and America still leads the Nation in the amount of people that are incarcerated. The problem goes well beyond the need to simply lower the number of people who are incarcerated. Yes, the problem...
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Location, Location, Location: How the Federal Sentencing System Can Cause Disparity in MDLEA Cases
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2025) 37 (2): 129–131.
Published: 01 May 2025
...Nicole Hardin Abstract Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA) cases in the federal sentencing system are governed by statutory punishment mandates and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which can lead to significant disparity in sentencing outcomes due to weight-based drug guidelines. While...
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The King Is Dead, Long Live the King: Booker v. United States and Its Place in the History of Federal Sentencing Law and Policy
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2025) 37 (1): 54–60.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Jonathan J. Wroblewski Abstract When the Supreme Court issued its decision in Booker v. United States , many believed it would lead to fundamental reform of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Others, by contrast, believed that Booker was the “fix.” Before the decision, federal sentencing...
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Reflections on the Rewriting the Sentence II Summit on Alternatives to Incarceration
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2024) 36 (3): 114–129.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Hanna Liebman Dershowitz; Rachel Van Etten The Center for Justice and Human Dignity hosted the Rewriting the Sentence II Summit at George Washington Law October 17-18, 2023. This article reviews the presenters’ key comments and the leading insights set forth throughout the Summit regarding...
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Ending Mass Incarceration is a Moral Imperative
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2014) 26 (4): 271–275.
Published: 01 April 2014
... five strategies to increase the chance that the present conjuncture leads to deep change and avoids the stabilization of the prison population into "mass incarceration lite." © The Ohio State University "Mass incarceration lite" human rights dignity evidence based penology racial...
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“Do I Have to Learn What a 'Crime of Moral Turpitude' Is?”: The World Before and After Padilla v. Kentucky
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2011) 24 (1): 66–69.
Published: 01 October 2011
.... Before Padilla v. Kentucky , thousands of defendants—especially those who were incarcerated—received no advice on immigration consequences and unknowingly signed pleas that would lead to their deportation. When the landmark Padilla decision was issued, defense attorney reactions ranged from ecstatic...
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Marvin, through the Looking-Glass
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2023) 35 (4-5): 304–310.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Jonathan J. Wroblewski Abstract In the summer of 1985, I had a chance meeting with Marvin Frankel. It would begin a career-long adventure into the world of federal sentencing, a looking-glass world where acquittals lead to punishment, rapes and robberies are not violent crimes, prosecutors gain...
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Michigan Drug Treatment Initiative
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2002) 14 (6): 344–349.
Published: 01 May 2002
... pursuant to Article I, Section 24. Appropriations for Treatment, Distribution to Local Governments; Audits and Studies The Michigan Department of Community Health or its successor agency is hereby established as the statewide lead agency to supervise the distribution of drug treatment funds made available...
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How Many Terrorists Are There? The Escalation in So-Called Terrorism Prosecutions
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2003) 16 (1): 38–42.
Published: 01 October 2003
... bank theft, drug violations and even the explosion of a pipe bomb, as terrorist cases. Why the need for increased terrorism prosecution gures? One explanation might be for individual U.S. Attorneys Of ces to appear tough on terrorism , which presumably leads to commendations and rewards. Another...
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Ohio Drug Treatment Initiative
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2002) 14 (6): 350–358.
Published: 01 May 2002
... Treatment Services is hereby designated to direct implementation of the programs required by this section, and FEDE RAL SEN TENCIN G REPORTER · VO L. 1 4, NO. 6 · MAY/ JU NE 200 2 355 shall be referred to as the lead agency. Such agency or department, or its successor agency, shall meet the following...
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The Fraud Guideline: The Proposed Amendments, DOJ’s Opposition, and Where We Go from Here
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2015) 27 (5): 284–287.
Published: 01 June 2015
... if it affected fty or more victims, and six levels if it affected 250 or more. This focus on the number of victims may lead to inappropriate results in some cases. For example, suppose a defendant in a penny stock scheme defrauds 500,000 people of only $5.00 each. Another defendant in a different kind of scheme...
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The 2018 Debate over Statutory Reforms to the Federal Criminal Justice System
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2018) 31 (2): 99–100.
Published: 01 December 2018
... during the Trump administration to strategizing just what kinds of reform should be prioritized. Georgetown Law Professor Shon Hopwood, a leading advocate for federal reforms, solicited original commentaries for this Issue that canvass the major provisions of key bills working their way through Congress...
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The Ordeal of the “Dirty Urine”
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2024) 36 (4): 197–200.
Published: 01 April 2024
... violations, including a person s failure to remain clean. 12 Although many states fail to keep rigorous data, experts report that urine testing is a leading cause (if not the leading cause) of imprisonment for technical violations.13 The ritual surrounding urine testing bears striking parallels to an older...
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Drug War Dragnet: Surveillance, Criminalization, and Drug War Logic within and beyond Community Supervision
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2024) 36 (4): 188–194.
Published: 01 April 2024
... supervision. The myriad individual, community, and societal harms of the war on drugs in the United States are well documented.1 Since 1971, there have been more than forty-one million drug arrests.2 Today, drug offenses remain among the leading causes of arrest, with one million arrests each year for drug...
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Challenging the Guidelines’ Loss Table
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2008) 20 (3): 174–180.
Published: 01 February 2008
... convicted of fraud based on the dollar amount of actual or intended monetary loss.2 White-collar defense lawyers frequently argue that strict application of the loss table overstates the seriousness of an offense and leads to an unjust sentence, especially in cases where the amount of intended loss...
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Escaping from the Standard Story: Why the Conventional Wisdom on Prison Growth is Wrong, and Where We Can Go from Here
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2014) 26 (4): 265–270.
Published: 01 April 2014
... Violent and Property Crime Rates, 1960 2010 Figure 3 Incarcerations per 1,000 Violent and Property Crimes, 1960 2010 an offender s life (relationships, employment, etc.) in ways that may lead to future criminality: a future burglary or aggravated assault could be the product in part of a prior drug arrest...
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