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Incarceration
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Sentencing Law and Policy
Oklahoma Gov signs “safety valve” legislation giving judges more sentencing discretion
Main May 5, 2015Oklahoma Gov signs "safety valve" legislation giving judges more sentencing discretionAs noted in this prior post, a few month ago the Oklahoma House passed by a significant…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Re-Examining Juvenile Incarceration: High cost, poor outcomes spark shift to alternatives”
Main May 2, 2015"Re-Examining Juvenile Incarceration: High cost, poor outcomes spark shift to alternatives"The title of this post is the title of this notable issue brief released this past week…
Law & Economics Prof Blog
Racial Disparities in Imprisonment across States: Why Are They So Much Greater in Liberal States?
Steve Sailer’s blog reprinted an interesting table on racial disparities in imprisonment rates. Liberal states imprison many more blacks relative to whites. The deep South has the most equal imprisonment…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Highlighting the mental illness underbelly of modern incarceration
Main April 19, 2015Highlighting the mental illness underbelly of modern incarcerationThe front-page of my own Columbus Dispatch today has this effective article about my state's prison population headlined "Ohio’s prisons…
Education Law Prof Blog
Legitimate Security Concerns Cannot Override Prisons’ Obligation to Provide Special Education Services
The Middle District of Pennsylvania recently held that while special education services can be modified for an incarcerated student who presents security concerns, an institution cannot restrict the student’s access…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Intriguing Sentencing Project analysis of a new analysis of state-by-state incarceration trends
Main April 9, 2015Intriguing Sentencing Project analysis of a new analysis of state-by-state incarceration trendsThe Sentencing Project has this notable little analysis of variations in incarceration trends in different states…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Notable nomenclature for naming the “liberty disabled”
Main April 3, 2015Notable nomenclature for naming the "liberty disabled"This new piece from The Marshall Project reports on the results of an interesting inquiry about what to call those who…
Education Law Prof Blog
From Segregation to Incarceration
By Derek Black
The Arkansas Law Review's symposium issue on education (presumably celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education) is now available on westlaw. The essays and articles offer a…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Should there be a presumptive incarceration “retirement age” to deal with the graying of prisons?
Main March 5, 2015Should there be a presumptive incarceration "retirement age" to deal with the graying of prisons?The question in the title of this post is my latest provocative (but…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Oscar speech by John Legend spotlights theNew Jim Crowstat about hyperincarceration of blacks in US
Main February 23, 2015Oscar speech by John Legend spotlights the New Jim Crow stat about hyperincarceration of blacks in US I watched most of last night's Oscar festivities while trying…