...Lynn Adelman In my article about Marvin Frankel’s contribution to federal sentencing, I argue that the sentencing model that Frankel favored, one based on detailed rules of general application and greatly reduced judicial discretion, is highly flawed and will almost always result in sentences...

... 2022 Issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter explores what could come next in the area of sentencing reform, with a particular focus on two new federal bills proposing notable structural changes to the federal sentencing system. The proposed Sentencing Commission Improvements Act and FIX Clemency Act...

... confinement forthwith. Anything less is profoundly inhumane and represents a colossal miscarriage of justice. © 2020 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. 2020 criminal law federal sentencing early release elderly prisoners sentencing reform COVID-19 prison health care prison reform...

.... © 2020 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. 2020 elderly prisoners prison health care criminal law health care prison reform sentencing reform early release federal sentencing The Special Perils of Being Old and Sick in Prison I. Health Care Standards for Chronically...

... survey, he was right. Federal sentencing practice is in chaos. The fundamental goals of the guidelines—uniformity, proportionality, and certainty—have been undermined. Nonetheless, this does not mean the guidelines should be abandoned or a wholesale redrafting is required. As it turns out, the guidelines...

... a notable first anniversary for the First Step Act, all should be sure to take time to celebrate a year of real progress, no matter how much further one believes we need to go. © 2019 Vera Institute of Justice 2019 First Step Act criminal justice reform federal sentencing E D I T O R S O B S...

...Frank O. Bowman, III These Editor's Observations introduce Volume 24, Number 5 of the Federal Sentencing Reporter, an issue devoted to renewed discussion in Congress and the U.S. Sentencing Commission about whether there is a need for legislative action to revise or replace the advisory federal...

... to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Rights and Permissions website, http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintInfo.asp . 2012 Federal Sentencing Guidelines criminal law sentencing Booker Blakely Apprendi United States Sentencing Commission...

... This 8-page letter to the U.S. Sentencing Commission Chair from the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division is reprinted from the U.S. Department of Justice Web site at http://www.justice.gov/ . The letter notes the challenges facing federal sentencing and corrections policy and, in a section...

... the development of a "more robust substantive appellate review." © 2011 Vera Institute of Justice U.S. Sentencing Commission Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security child pornography production child pornography possession federal sentencing Federal Sentencing reporter Vol . 24...