
Commentary on why and how sentencing matters, from the editors of the Federal Sentencing Reporter
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On July 1, the federal Bureau of Prisons announced that it will close a cluster of its institutions. Beaumont Low and Big Spring in Texas, La Tuna outside El Paso, the women’s satellite camp at Lexington, Kentucky, Petersburg Low in Virgini...
Here in Washington, it’s a rare policy pitch that doesn’t claim to be “evidence based.” But those claims often don’t hold up to even the smallest bit of scrutiny. Behavioral psychologists like Richard Thaler, Daniel Kahneman, and Robert Shi...
Recent changes in the understanding of addiction have contributed to greater adoption of treatment‑based responses in drug policy, including the development of drug courts as alternatives for individuals charged with lower‑level, non‑violen...
Two years ago, we created this Substack to try to make sense of sentencing doctrine, data, and practice. To mark this anniversary — and to respond to the Commission’s recently published proposed policy priorities — we went to the archive, a...
The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 established the U.S. Sentencing Commission as an independent agency “in the judicial branch of the United States.” More than forty years later, the full implications of that judicial branch placement are st...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Steven L. Chanenson is a Professor of Law at Villanova University and one of the Managing Editors of the Federal Sentencing Reporter. Previously, he was an AUSA in Chicago and later the Chair of the PA Commission on Sentencing.
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