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...Center on Sentencing and Corrections, Vera Institute of Justice © The Ohio State University The Potential of Community Corrections to Improve Communities and Reduce Incarceration CENTER ON SENTENCING AND CORRECTIONS, VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE Introduction In the last 40 years, the number...

...Mindy Tarlow; Marta Nelson © The Ohio State University The Time Is Now: Immediate Work for People Coming Home from Prison as a Strategy to Reduce Their Reincarceration and Restore Their Place in the Community MINDY TARLOW Chief Executive Officer, Center for Employment Opportunities MARTA...

...J.J. Prescott Abstract Community notification laws may make sense in the context of traditional sex offenses and sex offenders. But child pornography crimes and the individuals who commit them are different, and they differ from archetypal sex crimes and criminals in ways that may unintentionally...

...Raymond Moore © The Ohio State University Testimony on Behalf of Federal Public and Community Defenders before the U.S. Sentencing Commission, February 16, 2012 Raymond Moore Federal Public Defender for the Districts of Colorado and Wyoming Thank you for the opportunity to testify about...

...Katelyn J. B. King; Amber Petkus; Ebony L. Ruhland Abstract Every state relies on fines and fees to defray the costs of community supervision, and many rely on a combination of monetary sanctions and government aid to operate these programs. Texas is one such state that designs their system...

...Laura I Appleman Abstract The federal criminal justice system routinely requires convicted individuals to pay fines, restitution, and special assessments as part of their sentence. These criminal justice payments are an obligatory condition of federal community supervision, which a vast majority...

.... It concludes by highlighting the importance of judicial and legislative efforts to reduce federal pretrial detention rates. Reducing the Federal Prison Population: The Role of Pretrial Community Supervision I. Introduction Despite an overall reduction in the federal prison population over the past decade...

...Nila Bala Abstract In the two years since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 continues to acutely affect those in the criminal legal system. In response, judges have considered a vaccine requirement as a condition of community supervision. Courts have justified the condition because remaining...

...Miriam Krinsky; Monica Fuhrmann Abstract The federal community supervision system is in need of reforms that promote fairness and justice, and can look to changes and innovations in state and local level supervision as a guide to creating transformation. This article begins with a brief overview...

...National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine © The Ohio State University The Effects of Incarceration and Reentry on Community (2020): The Perspective from the District Attorney s Of ce Points Made by the Speaker1 The district attorney s of ce in Philadelphia is working...

...John H. Griggs, III © The Ohio State University Targeting Risk-Related Needs in the Presentence Investigation Report to Improve Offender Community Reentry JOHN H. GRIGGS, III Supervising U.S. Probation Officer, Middle District of Florida Since 1973, per capita imprisonment has increased...

... substance use SUD mental health © The Ohio State University Missing the Mark: Drug Testing on Community Supervision The articles you are about to read represent fresh thinking and honest re ection on a common practice: drug testing in probation and parole. Drug testing on community supervision...

...Aliza Cohen; Melissa Moore This paper examines the multilayered dynamics behind the drivers of overdose deaths, criminal legal-system involvement, and the drug war infiltration of people’s everyday lives—especially for people under community supervision. While incarceration receives more media...

...Michelle S. Phelps © The Ohio State University The Paradox of Probation: Community Supervision in the Age of Mass Incarceration (excerpted) Editor s Note: Article excerpted from Law & Policy, volume 35, pages 51 80. References and footnotes were not reprinted due to length. The complete...

...Jelani Jefferson Exum © The Ohio State University Communicating Substance Now that the Federal Sentencing Guidelines are advisory, the U.S. Sentencing Commission has more responsibility than ever to convince sentencing judges of the legitimacy of the Guidelines advice. During their mandatory...

... Domestic Violence When Men Return from Prison1 Editor s Note: Much of reentry research focuses on ways to improve prisoners chances of success upon their return to the community. To that end, some criminal justice administrators have started to recognize that families can play an important role...

... it afterwards. Eventually, I gave the false confession, and then asked if I could go home. Surely, I thought, after telling them what they wanted, I would be able to leave the CHRIS OCHOA CARLITA SALAZAR Acting Communications Director, Innocence Project Federal Sentencing Reporter, Vol. 31, No. 4-5, pp. 299 302...

...Amy Baron-Evans; David Patton © The Ohio State University A Response to Judge Pryor s Proposal to Fix the Guidelines: A Cure Worse than the Disease AMY BARONEVANS Sentencing Resource Counsel, Federal Public and Community Defenders DAVID PATTON Executive Director, Federal Defenders of New...

...Paul J. Hofer © The Ohio State University A Change Election EDITORS OBSERVATIONS PAUL J. HOFER Policy Analyst, Sentencing Resource Counsel of the Federal Public and Community Defenders Senior Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Introduction...

...Thomas W. Hillier, II; Amy Baron-Evans © The Ohio State University Six Years After Booker, the Evolution Has Just Begun Thomas W. Hillier II Federal Public Defender, Western District of Washington Amy BaronEvans Sentencing Resource Counsel, Federal Public and Community Defenders I...