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...Jonathan Simon Abstract The movement against mass incarceration has made major strides in the past few years with politicians and the media becoming significantly less enthralled with prisons and prison populations themselves are dropping modestly. However further progress, let alone a major effort...

...Nora V. Demleitner © The Ohio State University EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS Human Dignity, Crime Prevention, and Mass Incarceration: A Meaningful, Practical Comparison Across Borders NORA V. DEMLEITNER Dean and Roy L. Steinheimer Jr. Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law...

...Judge Lynn Adelman; Jon Deitrich © The Ohio State University Booker, Judges, and Mass Incarceration JUDGE LYNN ADELMAN U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin JON DEITRICH Law Clerk, Judge Lynn Adelman; Adjunct Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School The most pressing...

...Michael O’Hear © The Ohio State University Wisconsin Sentencing in the Walker Era: Mass Incarceration as the New Normal Wisconsin voters rst elected Republican Scott Walker governor in 2010. He proved an exceptionally polarizing leader, largely as a result of his nationally known battles...

...Michael O’Hear © The Ohio State University EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS Mass Incarceration in the Heartland: Midwestern States Struggle to Tame Historically High Prison Populations MICHAEL O HEAR Professor, Marquette Law School Editor, Federal Sentencing Reporter As goes the Midwest, so goes the rest...

...Chiraag Bains © The Ohio State University Looking in the Mirror: The Prosecutor s Role in Ending Mass Incarceration I. Introduction Prosecutors carry a noble mission: to present truth and seek justice, to punish and deter criminal wrongdoing, and to ensure the rule of law. But their actions...

...Hon. Lynn Adelman Abstract In my paper, I discuss what I believe is the most effective approach to sentencing drug defendants. I start with the proposition that in many, if not most cases, incarcerating drug offenders does more harm than good. Imprisonment contributes to mass incarceration, does...

..., Amendment to House Bill 992. Felon Voting Disenfranchisement: A Growing Collateral Consequence of Mass Incarceration InNovember 2000, justunder 100million Americans will cast theirballots forPresident, representinghalf theeligible voters in thecountry.But despite substantial MARC MAUER Assistant...

...Ronald P. Corbett, Jr. © The Ohio State University Probation and Mass Incarceration: The Ironies of Correctional Practice RONALD P. CORBETT JR.* University of Massachusetts Lowell Robina Institute, University of Minnesota Law School The Wisdom of Sociology is this: things are not what...

...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...

...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...

... has been both significant and modest because it operates in an exceptionally repressive context considering the advent of mass incarceration. Unless construed more broadly, it may help rationalize draconian sentences for adults and cement the status quo. This Article offers a wider historical...

...Ashley Nellis Abstract Americans have grown uneasy with our ranking as the world’s leader in incarceration, which has made way for thoughtful discussion and debate around how to reform our sentencing and corrections systems. To adequately measure progress toward ending mass imprisonment, federal...

... sentencing commission, and matching prison use with available prison capacity. Finally, we should learn from our collective past; the United States has not always had extremely high “mass incarceration” rates, nor has it always had rates much higher than those in Europe. Americans should not accept...

... defense can play an important role in any strategy to unwind mass incarceration while improving the quality of criminal justice generally. © The Ohio State University Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem indigent defense violent crime community policing client-centered defense Innovations...

.... The author brings her years as a prisoners' rights litigator and Pro Se Law Clerk to bear on the issue of whether, in these days of economic recession and mass incarceration, it is prison rather than prison litigation that is truly in need of reform. © The Ohio State University Prison Litigation...

... for mass incarceration specifically, propelled a staggering increase in criminal justice debt. Unlike the state laws to which the Kelly v. Robinson court deferred, today’s revenue-generating fines and fees practices actually undermine public safety by distorting law enforcement priorities. They deter...

... number of applicants due to mass incarceration, and the redundant layers of bureaucratic review have created a backlog of some 18,000 applications as of April 2022. Clemency must be restored as an accepted tool to ensure that justice is served. The FIX Clemency Act, which creates an independent...

...Marah Stith McLeod Abstract Critics of mass incarceration and American punitiveness have called for a renewed focus on human dignity. They have proposed ways to make sanctions less severe and to ensure that punishments are more humanely administered. Attention to human dignity, however, also...

... nearly four decades ago, before their impact on mass incarceration was fully appreciated, before it was known how they encoded racial bias and enabled discriminatory sentencing outcomes, before recent developments in neuroscience and psychology and before diversionary programs showed promise...