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... system and, therefore, our society. © The Ohio State University Ohio sentencing data trial court Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission justice statewide criminal sentencing database judiciary judicial discretion Here Come the Judges: A Judicial Response to Anticipated Concerns over...

...Scott A. Anderson Abstract In her recent State of the Judiciary Address, Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor promoted a statewide sentencing database as a means for securing equal access to justice for all Ohioans. Chief Justice O’Connor argued that, to ensure confidence...

..., the Director of the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission, describes the current challenges related to gathering all the necessary information for a statewide sentencing database, given Ohio s decentralized court system and diverse sentencing structures. Niki Hotchkiss, also from the Ohio Criminal Sentencing...

... an implemented Ohio Felony Sentencing Database can do to make our criminal justice system more ef cient, fair, and open. As I learned more about the project and heard what the technology experts and scientists involved can do with my sentencing entries, I became convinced that the end result will not only bene t...

...Meredith Farrar-Owens © The Ohio State University The Evolution of Sentencing Guidelines in Virginia: An Example of the Importance of Standardized and Automated Felony Sentencing Data MEREDITH FARRAROWENS Director, Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission In 2011, Virginia s sentencing...

... cases were matched to data from the state s detailed pre/post-sentence investiga- tion (PSI) database and each offender s criminal history report, or rap sheet. Construction of the risk assessment instrument was based on statistical analysis of the char- acteristics, criminal histories and patterns...

... their criminal record. Mr. Jones s record, in particular, has several diverted charges that can be automatically expunged by petition and one misdemeanor conviction from eight years prior that can be expunged at the discretion of the sentencing judge.2 When Mr. Jones speaks to a pro bono attorney at the clinic...

... access to public records is a duty of each agency FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 30, NOS. 4-5 APRIL/JUNE 2018 14 On the website of the California Department of Justice, the authority mandated to maintain the statewide criminal record repository, it is stated clearly that access to criminal history...

...Sara Andrews Abstract The complex, intricate process of felony sentencing in Ohio makes ensuring clear, comprehendible sentences of the utmost import for the administration of justice and promoting confidence in the system. As such, for more than a year, the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission...

... The Kansas Sentencing Commission set forth in its 2001 Report to the Legislature that activities over the next year would focus on the development of a comprehensive statewide policy on the treatment of drug offenders in the criminal justice system. Given that between 65% and 75% of offenders incarcerated...

... and Mark Bergstrom, the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing, championed the cause of providing sentencing commissions with access to the FBI s national criminal history database.8 Once again, the motivating theory is that improved and more accessible data will lead to better...

.... In each of the past three years, only about 6 percent of FINS cases were petitioned to court as CINS.4 The Network requires participating providers to report comprehensive performance information, which it collects through a centralized, statewide database. It, in turn, submits monthly and more detailed...

... of future trends in drug sentencing Including these estimates can facilitate more effective correctional planning across the criminal justice system. Information on trends for all drug data Including this information will help stakeholders evaluate how policy choices are or are not re ected...

... in this report are used to calculate the savings of a reduction in prison capacity. 74 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 25, NO. 1 OCTOBER 2012 11 Vera Institute of Justice, Criminal Justice Trends: Key Legislative Changes in Sentencing Policy, 2001 2010 (New York: Vera Institute of Justice, 2010), 6. 12 JFA...

... robust guidance 286 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 30, NOS. 4-5 APRIL/JUNE 2018 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, evidence suggests that even the nation s largest employers are either unaware of civil rights and consumer protections for people with criminal records...

...Kevin R. Reitz © The Ohio State University Risk Discretion at Sentencing KEVIN R. REITZ James Annenberg La Vea Professor of Criminal Procedure and Co-Director, Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, University of Minnesota Law School Kern Keynote delivered August 5, 2013...

... crime of the week political pressures, and have maintained a focus on comprehensive system-wide policymaking. 11 New Mexico is among the jurisdictions moving toward a commission model. It transformed its state criminal justice council into a sentencing commission by granting it new resources...

.... 3 N. W. Link, Criminal Justice Debt During the Prisoner Reintegration Process: Who Has It and How Much?, 46 Crim. Just. & Behav. 154 (2019). 4 K. R. Kras et al., Compounded Stigmatization: Collateral Consequences of a Sex Offense Conviction, in Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing...

... of hundreds of policy decisions by state and federal leaders that increased criminal sentences and restricted release from prison. There is another driver fueling prison growth that has been largely overlooked: a structural aw in the U.S. criminal justice system that incentivizes probation and parole...

...-9867 electronic ISSN 1533-8363. © 2006 Steve Aos, Marna Miller, and Elizabeth Drake. Evidence-Based Public Policy Options to Reduce Future Prison Construction, Criminal Justice Costs, and Crime Rates. Olympia: Washington State Institute for Public Policy. FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 19, NO. 4...