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...Marc Mauer © The Ohio State University A Proposal to Reduce Time Served in Federal Prison Testimony to Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections MARC MAUER, Executive Director The Sentencing Project March 11, 2015 Introduction After nearly four decades of sustained growth, prison...

...Nora V. Demleitner; Jon M. Sands EDITORS' OBSERVATIONS Overlooked Areas of Federal Sentencing: Federal Enclaves, Indian Country, Transfer of U.S. Prisoners fromAbroad NORAV.DEMLEITNER Editor, Federal Sentencing Reporter JONM.SANDS ^^ Assistant Federal Public Defender, District of Arizona X jt...

...Jon M. Sands; Robert J. McWhirter © The Ohio State University 04.FSR18.2_102-105.qxd 2/23/06 2:51 PM Page 102 Federal Sentencing Adventures in Jurisdictional Wonderland: Blakely, Booker, and Special Federal Jurisdiction Issues JON M. SANDS & ROBERT J. MCWHIRTER Jon M. Sands is the Federal...

... © The Ohio State University 05.FSR18.2_106-119.qxd 2/23/06 2:51 PM Page 106 Letter from Federal Defenders to U.S. Sentencing Commission about Federal Sentencing since United States v. Booker Honorable Ricardo H. Hinojosa United States Sentencing Commission One Columbus Circle, N.E. Suite 2...

...Stephen Breyer © The Ohio State University Federal Sentencing Guidelines Revisited Originally published in Vol. 11, No. 4 (1999) of Federal Sentencing Reporter JUSTICE STEPHEN BREYER Associate Justice Supreme Court of the United States Presented to the University of Nebraska College of Law...

...Kate Stith; José A. Cabranes © The Ohio State University To Fear Judging No More: Recommendations for the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Originally published in Vol. 11, No. 4 (1999) of Federal Sentencing Reporter KATE STITH Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a member...

...Marc Miller; Daniel J. Freed © The Ohio State University The Unful lled Potential for Independent Federal Sentencing Research Originally published in Vol. 6, No. 1 (1993) of Federal Sentencing Reporter Congress designed the Sentencing Commission to be a new kind of agency, guided by research...

...Julie Samuels; Nancy La Vigne © The Ohio State University Next Steps in Federal Corrections Reform: Implementation Update JULIE SAMUELS and NANCY LA VIGNE Urban Institute When we published our brief on the First Step Act in the spring of 2019, we identi ed many implementation questions, among...

...Julie Samuels; Nancy La Vigne; Chelsea Thomson © The Ohio State University Next Steps in Federal Corrections Reform: Implementing and Building on the First Step Act JULIE SAMUELS, NANCY LA VIGNE, and CHELSEA THOMSON Urban Institute May 2019 The topic of federal corrections reform is hardly new...

...Brian D. Johnson © The Ohio State University Plea-Trial Differences in Federal Punishment: Research and Policy Implications BRIAN D. JOHNSON* Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland I. Introduction Two empirical facts underlie ongoing policy debates over plea...

...JaneAnne Murray © The Ohio State University Ameliorating the Federal Trial Penalty through a Systematic Judicial Second Look Procedure We can t lose sight of the fact that when you imprison somebody for ten years, fteen years, twenty years, there s a human toll that should not be ignored...

...Marjorie J. Peerce; Brad Gershel © The Ohio State University 1980s Sentencing Reform and Its Impact on Federal Plea Bargaining and the Trial Penalty I. Introduction U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once described plea bargaining as a way to beat the house, that is, to serve less time...

...Jennifer A. Segal © The Ohio State University Family Ties and Federal Sentencing: A Critique of the Literature JENNIFER A. SEGAL Judicial Fellow at the United States Sentencing Commission; Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Kentucky. The views of the author do...

...Isaac B. Rosenberg © The Ohio State University Involuntary Endogenous RFID as a Condition of Federal Supervised Release Chips Ahoy? Sex offenders are the foremost targets of our nation s punitive zeal. They receive some of the harshest postincarceration treatment of all felons on federal...

...Sonja B. Starr © The Ohio State University Using Sentencing to Clean Up Criminal Procedure: Incorporating Remedial Sentence Reduction into Federal Sentencing Law On September 24, 2008, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa issued its opinion in United States v. Dicus...

...U.S. Sentencing Commission © The Ohio State University Report on Federal Escape Offenses in Fiscal Years 2006 and 2007 I. Introduction Prompted by a suggestion in a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the United States Sentencing Commission undertook a data...

...Caleb Mason; David Bjerk © The Ohio State University Inter-Judge Sentencing Disparity on the Federal Bench: An Examination of Drug Smuggling Cases in the Southern District of California CALEB MASON Miller Barondess, LLP DAVID BJERK Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, Claremont McKenna...

... as notes for a discussion at the March 2, 1992 meeting of the Sentencing Institute for the Second and Eighth Circuits in Lexington, Kentucky. © The Ohio State University A Trial Judge s Re ections on Departures from the Federal Sentencing Guidelines HON. JACK B. WEINSTEIN United States District...

...John Gleeson Abstract The president’s power to grant clemency is but one feature of a sentence-correction ecosystem. But the abolition of federal parole in the 1980s left the clemency power as the only way to correct lawfully imposed sentences for the simple reason that they are too damn long...

...Gabriel J. Chin; David Schlussel Abstract Congress has been weighing a new form of judicial relief—a Certificate of Rehabilitation—that could alleviate the “internal exile” caused by the collateral consequences of a federal conviction. Aside from the once robust, now rare and erratic pardon power...