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...Ames Grawert; Priya Raghavan © The Ohio State University Criminal Justice Reform Must Start with Sentencing Reform I. Introduction** In an unpredictable political season, Congress nonetheless seems poised to pass a criminal justice reform bill. That s the good news. The bad news...

...Molly Gill © The Ohio State University Threading the Needle: The FIRST STEP Act, Sentencing Reform, and the Future of Criminal Justice Reform Advocacy I. Introduction Shortly after Donald Trump s election to the presidency, a journalist contacted me and asked for my opinion on the prospects...

...Barry L. Johnson © The Ohio State University The Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 and the Prospects for Federal Sentencing Reform BARRY L. JOHNSON Professor, Oklahoma City University School of Law Introduction The Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (ÒCAFRAÓ) was a signiÞcant...

...Kyle O'Dowd; Shana-Tara Regon; Michael Price © The Ohio State University Notes from the Defense Bar: Fighting for Reform on Three Fronts During the Obama Administration Shortly after the 2008 elections, a relatively diverse assortment of interest groups collaborated on a lengthy transition...

...Jennifer Seltzer Stitt © The Ohio State University Worth Fighting For: Keeping the Promise of Sentencing Reform Jennifer Seltzer Stitt Director of Federal Legislative Affairs, Families Against Mandatory Minimums On January 20, 2008, I stood on my porch and listened to the roar of the crowd...

...James E. Felman © The Ohio State University The Need to Reform the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for High-Loss Economic Crimes James E. Felman* Kynes, Markman & Felman, P.A., Tampa, Florida I. Introduction The advisory federal Guidelines face perhaps their greatest initial challenge...

...Ted Gest © The Ohio State University Corrections Reform Where Are the News Media? One by one, the states review their sentencing laws, fixing some of the excesses that produced a national prison and jail population exceeding two million. In a September 2010 summary,1 the Vera Institute...

...Douglas A. Berman © The Ohio State University E D I T O R S O b ser v a tio n s The Many (Opaque) Echoes of Compromise Crack Sentencing Reform Douglas A. Berman FSR Editor & Saxbe Designated Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law This past summer, Congress finally...

... © The Ohio State University Federal Prosecutors, Not Judges, Decide Whether Defendants Serve a Five-Year Mandatory Minimum in Certain Child Pornography Prosecutions: Further Cause for Repeal and Reform Editor s Note: The author is an attorney currently under suspension who practiced...

...Frank O. Bowman, III © The Ohio State University EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS Tis a Gift to Be Simple: A Model Reform of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines FRANK O. BOWMAN, III Floyd R. Gibson Missouri Endowed Professor of Law University of Missouri Columbia School of Law When the United States...

...Douglas A. Berman © The Ohio State University EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS A Cynic s Guide to All the Federal Sentencing Reform Buzz DOUGLAS A. BERMAN FSR Co-Managing Editor & Robert J. Watkins/Procter & Gamble Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law New Reform Momentum...

...Eric Holder © The Ohio State University Remarks on Criminal Justice Reform at Georgetown University Law Center ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Justice Department February 11, 2014 Thank you, Wade [Henderson], for those kind words and thank you all for being here...

... are undoubtedly due, the current Commission has advanced a series of noteworthy reform initiatives aimed at reducing sentences. The most visible is the Commission’s recent proposed amendment that would lessen drug trafficking sentences across the board, but there are others. Because of the Commission’s efforts...

... prison units. Direct and personal exposure to European prison and criminal justice systems promoted humane and effective prisons at home. One Road to Prison Reform Runs Through Europe On May 23, 2011, the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark decision on prisoners rights. In Brown v. Plata...

...Victor Hansen Military Justice Reform: An Overview VICTOR HANSEN* Associate Dean and Professor of Law, New England Law, Boston As the title suggests, the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) serves as the code of military justice for all of the United States military services: Army, Navy, Air...

...Ryan S. King Statement of Ryan King on Behalf of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, the Open Society Policy Center, Prison Reform International, and The Sentencing Project: Domestic Criminal Justice Issues in the United States and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights...

...Eliot Spitzer © The Ohio State University Executive Order No. 10: Establishing the New York State Commission on Sentencing Reform WHEREAS, criminal sentences should appropriately reflect the seriousness of the offender s crime, and should meet the multiple objectives of punishment, deterrence...

...Beth A. Colgan © The Ohio State University The Presidential Politics of Prisoner Reentry Reform BETH A. COLGAN Managing Attorney, Institutions Project at Columbia Legal Services America is the land of second chance, and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better...

...Ryan S. King © The Ohio State University Recent Developments in State Parole Reform, 2004 2006 RYAN S. KING Policy Analyst, The Sentencing Project Between 2004 and 2006, at least twenty-two states enacted legislative reforms to their sentencing policies or adopted reforms affecting probation...

...Michael M. O'Hear © The Ohio State University EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS The Second Chance Act and the Future of Reentry Reform MICHAEL M. O HEAR Professor, Marquette University Law School Editor, Federal Sentencing Reporter Mass incarceration in the 1980s and 1990s has spawned a prisoner reentry...