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Incarceration
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Sentencing Law and Policy
"Lives on the Line: Women with Incarcerated Loved Ones and the Impact of COVID-19 Behind Bars"
The title of this post is the title of this interesting recent report I just came across from the "Lives on the Line Campaign." Here is part of the start…
Criminal
“Lives on the Line: Women with Incarcerated Loved Ones and the Impact of COVID-19 Behind Bars”
The title of this post is the title of this interesting recent report I just came across from the "Lives on the Line Campaign." Here is part of the start…
Sentencing Law and Policy
"Incarceration and the Law: Cases and Materials (Table of Contents and Ch. 1 Excerpt)"
The title of this post is the title of this SSRN posting with a part of the latest new edition of the casebook Incarceration and the Law: Cases and Materials. …
Criminal
“Incarceration and the Law: Cases and Materials (Table of Contents and Ch. 1 Excerpt)”
The title of this post is the title of this SSRN posting with a part of the latest new edition of the casebook Incarceration and the Law: Cases and Materials. …
Health Law Prof Blog
The Effect of Incarceration on Mortality
Samuel Norris (University of Chicago), Matthew Pecenco (University of CA-Berkley), Jeffrey Weaver (University of Southern California), The Effect of Incarceration on Mortality, SSRN:This paper analyzes the effect of incarceration on…
Sentencing Law and Policy
"Millennial Futures Are Bleak. Incarceration Is to Blame."
The title of this post is the headline of this interesting Atlantic commentary authored by Jill Filipovic. Here is how it starts: The oldest Millennials turn 40 this year, and…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Making sure not to look past or become numb to persistently ugly pandemic realities in incarceration nations
It has now been a couple of weeks since I did a round-up of prison-COVID press pieces. To their credit, the press and commentators keeping reporting and discussing the discouraging…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Reviewing how California got under 100,000 prisoners, a huge cut from modern high and the lowest since the 1980s (but still above designed capacity)
This lengthy San Francisco Chronicle piece, headlined "How California reduced its inmate population to a 30-year low," reports on the remarkable modern decline in the prison population in the state…
Criminal
Advocacy groups urge Congress to include provisions to safeguard incarcerated persons in latest COVID bill
A variety of leading advocacy groups sent this detailed letter to congressional leaders yesterday to advocate for "critical provisions to protect the health and safety of incarcerated individuals in the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
"The Effect of Incarceration on Mortality"
The title of this post is the title of this notable new paper just posted to SSRN authored by Samuel Norris, Matthew Pecenco and Jeffrey Weaver. Here is its abstract:…