... to understand the need for criminal justice reform, as indicated in recent polling, even as it hesitates on some of the bolder ideas for reform. This article reviews the recent controversy over the issue of COVID-related transfers of people from prisons to home confinement, and the threat...

...Jordan M. Hyatt; Valerio Baćak; Erin M. Kerrison Since the global pandemic began in early 2020, COVID-19 has impacted almost every correctional facility in the country. In Pennsylvania, the pandemic response has required significant changes to the operation of correctional facilities...

...Douglas A. Berman The remarkable events of 2020 have disrupted and altered all sorts of plans, and this issue of FSR covers some of the many varied criminal justice and sentencing echoes of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and urgent new calls for racial justice. The intense and dynamic topics...