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...Pew Charitable Trusts © The Ohio State University Public Safety, Public Spending: Forecasting America s Prison Population 2007-2011 PUBLIC SAFETY PERFORMANCE PROJECT OF THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS* February 2007 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY After a 700-percent increase in the U.S. prison population between...

...Karen Gelb © The Ohio State University MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS: Public Opinion versus Public Judgment about Sentencing DR. KAREN GELB Senior Criminologist, Sentencing Advisory Council, Victoria, Australia, httpwww. sentencingcouncil. vic.gov.au/ [This is a short, edited excerpt of Dr. Gelb s...

...Vincent Schiraldi; Judith Greene Reducing Correctional Costs in an Era of Tightening Budgets and Shifting Public Opinion VINCENT SCHIRALDI President, Justice Policy Institute JUDITH GREENE Soros Senior Justice Fellow During the 1990Õs, corrections constituted one of the fastest growing line items...

...Mark H. Bergstrom; Joseph Sabino Mistick, ESQ. © The Ohio State University The Pennsylvania Experience: Public Release of Judge-Speci c Sentencing Data Much has been written over the years about the need for judicial independence. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has noted that judicial...

...Michael Marcus © The Ohio State University Archaic Sentencing Liturgy Sacrifices Public Safety: What s Wrong and How We Can Fix It HONORABLE MICHAEL MARCUS Circuit Court, Multnomah County, Oregon For many years, Judge Marcus has promoted decision support technology for more effective...

...United States Sentencing Commission © The Ohio State University Report to the Congress: Downward Departures From the Federal Sentencing Guidelines (in response to section 401(m) of Public Law 108-21) October 8, 2003 Editor s Note: Subsection (m) of the enacted Feeney Amendment, entitled...

...Anne Milgram; Alexander M. Holsinger; Marie Vannostrand; Matthew W. Alsdorf © The Ohio State University Pretrial Risk Assessment: Improving Public Safety and Fairness in Pretrial Decision Making ANNE MILGRAM Vice-President of Criminal Justice, Laura and John Arnold Foundation Senior Fellow...

...Carole D'Elia © The Ohio State University The Politics of Public Safety Reform in California Carole D Elia Deputy Executive Director, Little Hoover Commission California once led the United States in its criminal justice policies. Decades ago, other states and nations looked to the Golden...

...Gregory J. O'Meara © The Ohio State University Compassion and the Public Interest: Wisconsin s New Compassionate Release Legislation Current sentencing and parole policies can be characterized by what John Pratt terms penal populism.1 This approach to criminal justice includes widespread...

...Judith A. Greene; Vincent Schiraldi © The Ohio State University Better by Half: The New York City Story of Winning Large-Scale Decarceration while Improving Public Safety JUDITH A. GREENE* Director, Justice Strategies VINCENT SCHIRALDI Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, Program...

...Michael M. O’Hear; Darren Wheelock © The Ohio State University Public Attitudes Toward Punishment, Rehabilitation, and Reform: Lessons from the Marquette Law School Poll Public support for tough sentencing policies rose sharply in the United States in the 1970s and remained high until the late...

...U.S. Sentencing Commission © The Ohio State University News Release: U.S. Sentencing Commission Holds Last Public Meeting of Current Commission, Proposes 2017 Amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines U.S. SENTENCING COMMISSION Washington, DC December 9, 2016 Today the United States...

...Patti B. Saris © The Ohio State University Remarks, December 2016 Public Meeting of the U.S. Sentencing Commission CHIEF JUDGE PATTI B. SARIS Chair, U.S. Sentencing Commission Thank you for attending this public meeting of the United States Sentencing Commission. This is the Commission s nal...

...Molly M. Gill © The Ohio State University Turning off the Spigot: How Sentencing Safety Valves can Help States Protect Public Safety and Save Money Foreword Pennsylvania State Senator Stewart Greenleaf During the 1980s and 1990s, lawmakers with good intentions, I being one of them, voted...

...Patti B. Saris, Chair © The Ohio State University Chair Patti Saris s Remarks at USSC Public Meeting Thank you all for coming to this public meeting of the United States Sentencing Commission. Your attendance here is a testament to the extraordinary interest in federal sentencing issues right...

...Washington State Institute for Public Policy © The Ohio State University Evidence-Based Public Policy Options to Reduce Future Prison Construction, Criminal Justice Costs, and Crime Rates Current long-term forecasts indicate that Washington will need two new prisons by 2020 and possibly...

...Isabel Gomez © The Ohio State University Pursuing Public Safety A Loose Fish in the Sea of Criminal Justice ISABEL GOMEZ Executive Director, Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission I. Introduction Herman Melville, describing the whales hunted by Ahab s crew, divided them into two categories...

...Christopher Stone Abstract The Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem (NDS) opened its doors in 1990, hoping to demonstrate the benefits of a community-based, team-based public defender that began representation from the moment of arrest, or even earlier. Although pretrial detention time...

...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...

...Susan B. Long © The Ohio State University TRAC Response to Federal Public Defenders Fact Sheets On March 5, based on an analysis of more than 370,000 criminal cases completed in the nation s courts during the past ve years (FY2007 FY2011), the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC...