Supervision failures are still driving incarceration. In 2023, nearly 200,000 people were admitted to prison for violating probation or parole, including over 110,000 people for technical violations.

The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Alexandra Natapoff and now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: ...

A busy summer continues for the US Sentencing Commission. A couple of weeks ago, as detailed here, the Commission conducted a "Public Hearing on Retroactivity" to "gather testimony from invited ...

The explanation may be the sheer volume of different efforts to reduce violence." From Fox News, " America’s crime drop isn’t a coincidence. Trump’s immigration policies are working: New report shows ...

From Rory Little, " Justice Neil Gorsuch’s "right to jury trial' revolution ": ...

This New York Times piece, headlined "N.J. Criminal Cases Screech to a Halt as Habba’s Authority Is Challenged," reports on the still-developing story: Federal court proceedings throughout New Jersey ...

Early in 2022, the pattern reversed, and homicide has been declining in every subsequent year. By the end of 2024, the new data show 20,157 homicides, only about 1,000 more than in 2019, the last full ...

At yearend, a total of 26 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) held 2,192 prisoners under sentence of death, which was 73 (3%) fewer than at yearend 2022. Five states and FBOP received a ...

From Jonathan Wroblewski at the Sentencing Matters Substack, " Hewitt v. United States: The Linguistics and Analysis Are Dubious. The Result Is Right. " ...

From The Hill, " Prison reform laws could safely send thousands home — if they’re enforced " From The Marshall Project, " New York’s Prison Guard Strike Ended Months Ago. For Some, Life-Threatening ...

Michael Tonry has been the leading commentator on the American sentencing reform movement since its beginning. Sentencing Matters, one of the most influential works on American sentencing ever ...

I noted in this post last week that the new Direcotr of the federal Bureau of Prisons has created a new First Step Act Task Force. This new Forbes article by Walter Palvo, headlined "Bureau Of Prisons ...