August 1, 2025 "AI thinks you should go to jail, even if you didn't do the crime" The title of this post is the ...

Edward Zakrzewski, 60, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. After the return of the U.S. death penalty in 1976, Florida carried out a ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...