... incarceration sentencing democracy racism insurrection decarceration reform Alternatives to Incarceration and the Sentencing Commission: A Call for Progress through Partnership HON. CARLTON W. REEVES Chair, United States Sentencing Commission District Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern...

..., the authors seek to shine a bright light on how the post-conviction mechanisms of compassionate release, clemency, and sentencing review must be used—in some instances reimagined—to advance decarceration for people with mental health treatment needs in federal and state prison systems. The authors call...

...Joseph E. Kennedy Decarceration should be justified not on instrumental grounds such as cost saving but on the basis of constitutive moral arguments. While instrumental justifications are less controversial, the path of least resistance in the short run will be the path of least progress...