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...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...

... 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...

..., 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...

... I have always used self-composed standard entry forms for consistency and ef ciency. It was good to be part of a statewide effort to create a standard sentencing entry that could be used and that would include the necessary information to make a sentencing entry less vulnerable to reversal...

... guidelines system marked its twentieth anniversary. Following years of data collection, analysis, and pilot testing, Virginia s discretionary and historically based sentencing guidelines were implemented statewide in January 1991, with the singular goal of reducing unwarranted disparity in the 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...

... to talk to a lawyer about cleaning up 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...

... 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 currently we cannot produce statewide or aggregate data on adult felony sentencing, procedures, and outcomes. Data are collected by a variety of practitioners for the purpose of conducting their respective work. This diminishes the ability to use data for case-level decisions, for policy analysis to improve...

... 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...

.... 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...

...-growing budget item after Medicaid.3 Although these numbers are alarming, what is less widely understood is that in some cases, expenditures at corrections departments account for only a portion of the nancial obligation a state commits to when it sentences an individual to prison. Existing gures often...

... 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...

..., among the Eleven Analyzed in This Study That Publicly Reported Drug Offense Data, Using Each of Four Reporting Methods (May July 2020) Annual Report Method of repor ng Speci c Report Online Dashboard Online Database 0123456789 Number of commissions 254 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 33, NO. 4...

.... California lacks a centralized court record repository, which forecloses some elegant, unitary processes for petitioning for record-change that are possible in other states with statewide court record repositories.47 The California Department of Justice, however, maintains FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL...

... and the guidelines lengthened sentences for dangerous violent offenders.5 Over the next 20 years, Virginia had slightly less prison growth per capita than the national average for all states.6 Through Kern and the VCSC, Virginia was ahead of other states in the development of statewide probation revocation...

... of their incarceration. 296 F E D E R A L S E N T E N C I N G R E P O R T E R r V O L . 16, N O . 4 r A P R I L 2 0 0 4 develop and ultimately implement statewide enhanced community corrections options, including voluntary sentencing guidelines. The third state, Wisconsin, is in the early stages of formulating a work...

... 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...

... with their state’s sex offense specific database, which can carry fees. Relatedly, such individuals are often required to attend treatment, take recurring polygraph tests, and are more likely to be placed on electronic monitoring, all of which carry surcharges. At the same time, people with sexual offense...

... is shown verbatim in the accompanying sidebar. In brief, the legislation requires the Institute to study the net short-run and long-run fiscal savings to state and local governments if evidence-based intervention, prevention, and sentencing alternatives are implemented in Washington State. The Institute...