... remain in place, complex as ever. Judges must utilize the guidelines to calculate the applicable sentencing range but may then freely stray from that range through the use of departures or variances. The guidelines coexist with mandatory minimum sentencing laws that are decidedly not advisory...

... Commissions Punishment Prosecutors Plea Bargains Mandatory Minimums Discretion Racial Disparity Racial Justice EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS Life in the Fast Lane: Dynamic Sentencing Developments across the Nation STEVEN L. CHANENSON Co-Managing Editor, FSR Professor of Law, Villanova University Charles...

... of Prisons First Step Act Sentencing Commission Judicial Discretion Mandatory Minimums Policy Statement Stash House Extraordinary and Compelling Sentencing Putting the Compassion in Compassionate Release: The Need for a Policy Statement Codifying Judicial Discretion ERICA ZUNKEL Clinical...

... Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. 2023 Federal Sentencing Guidelines post-Booker sentencing Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 United States Sentencing Commission mandatory minimums 3553(a) factors sentencing disparities Federal Sentencing Statistics Fine Tuning the Guidelines Again JOE...

...Lynn Adelman; Jon Deitrich Freshly stocked with members, the Sentencing Commission has the opportunity to push federal sentencing in the right direction. The Commission should press Congress to abolish mandatory minimum sentencing laws. Such provisions prevent judges from imposing individualized...

... 2019 dataset of over 20,000 cases sentenced for drug crimes. Results show that judges employed various mechanisms to reduce statutory- and guidelines-based penalties. Strategies by judges include avoiding mandatory minimums (using the safety valve and otherwise), giving greater point reductions than...

... have worked system is about justice and fairness ultimately, and to closely with Professor Hopwood, the Federal Defender consider agreeing to vacate § 924(c) convictions so that Program, Families Against Mandatory Minimums, and the judges can do justice. The record re ects extraordinary National...

..., a nonpartisan tech non-profit, enables System Actors to make data-driven decisions as part of their regular workflows. This article describes Recidiviz’s work modeling the projected influence of eliminating mandatory minimums in Virginia, including state costs avoided, impact on the prison population...

... their worst act—could be salvaged, and deserved happiness. © 2021 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. 2021 Judge Weinstein sentencing sentencing guidelines mandatory minimums terrorism child pornography deterrence Sentencing with Love, Not Hate I. Just get out of the way and let...

...John G. Malcolm Beginning in the 1980’s, Congress passed a series of “tough on crime” mandatory minimum sentences. While increased periods of incarceration contributed to reduced crime rates, the pendulum has swung too far. Mandatory minimum sentences designed for “kingpins” are often meted out...

.... Second, the amendment continues to base the offense levels in the Drug Quantity Table on the mandatory minimums in the drug trafficking statute. The Commission should delink the Drug Quantity Table from the mandatory minimums. An increasing number of drug defendants escape the operation of otherwise...