Topic
Habitual Offender
22 published works
The State of Justice Blog
1000 Years Overcome! Celebrating a Milestone in Appleseed’s Legal and Reentry Work
A few years ago, Appleseed confronted an astonishing truth within Alabama state prisons: people sentenced to life without parole, individuals with no chance of using good behavior to catch a…
Criminal
The Sentencing Project releases new report, “The Eugenic Origins of Three Strikes Laws: How ‘Habitual Offender’ Sentencing Laws Were Used as a Means of Sterilization”
In this post late last week, I noted a new article by Daniel Loehr available via SSRN titled "The Eugenic History of Habitual Offender Laws." Today I received an email…
Sentencing Law and Policy
"The Eugenic History of Habitual Offender Laws"
The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Daniel Loehr now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: Habitual offender laws are widely understood…
Criminal
“The Eugenic History of Habitual Offender Laws”
The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Daniel Loehr now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract:Habitual offender laws are widely understood to…
Sentencing Law and Policy
A couple of interesting items on latest SCOTUS order list
Most of the case dispositions on this morning's Supreme Court's order list are cert denials, though there are a couple of items of interest for sentencing and criminal justice fans. …
Sentencing Law and Policy
Taking account of extreme sentences under "habitual offender" laws in Mississippi and Louisiana
Tana Ganeva has this lengthy new piece at The Appeal which details the impact and import of repeat offender laws in two southern states. The full title of this piece…
Criminal
Taking account of extreme sentences under “habitual offender” laws in Mississippi and Louisiana
Tana Ganeva has this lengthy new piece at The Appeal which details the impact and import of repeat offender laws in two southern states. The full title of this piece…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Contesting LWOP in Louisiana for selling a joint thanks to a a “quad bill” and the trial penalty
I just came across this press piece, headlined "Louisiana Supreme Court to review life sentence over $30 marijuana sale at Tulane hearing," on a notable extreme state sentencing case just…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“The economic and moral costs of our inhumane prison system”
The title of this post is the headline of this recent Washington Examiner commentary authored by Arthur Rizer. Here are excerpts: In the U.S., we say we care about human…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Revisiting Life without Parole in Alabama One Prisoner at a Time
By Guest Blogger Prof. Courtney CrossIn 2018, the Alabama legislature reduced the maximum sentence for drug trafficking from life without parole to life with the possibility of parole. While this…