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Keeping Sex Offenders Beyond Their Sentence Jan. 21, 2025
Twenty states, the District of Columbia, and the federal government have laws allowing for continued... Read More
Biden's Clemency for Federal Prisoners Is Only Part of the Story Dec. 24, 2024
SAN DIEGO — There are three things you need to know about the media and how they approach anyt... Read More
A Post-Clemency Prosecution Shines a Light on a Broken System: Donald Trump Commuted Esformes' Sentence, but the DOJ Is Bent on Sending Him Back to Prison Jul. 07, 2023
A month before he left office, then-President Donald Trump freed Philip Esformes, a Florida nursing ... Read More
Trump Can't Decide Whether To Free Drug Dealers or Kill Them: The Former President's Bloody Rhetoric Undermines His Defense of Sentencing Reform Jul. 05, 2023
Donald Trump can't seem to decide whether he wants to execute drug dealers or free them from prison.... Read More
A Post-Clemency Prosecution Shines a Light on a Broken System: Donald Trump Commuted Esformes' Sentence, but the DOJ Is Bent on Sending Him Back to Prison Jul. 05, 2023
A month before he left office, then-President Donald Trump freed Philip Esformes, a Florida nursing ... Read More
Trump Can't Decide Whether To Free Drug Dealers or Kill Them: The Former President's Bloody Rhetoric Undermines His Defense of Sentencing Reform Jun. 28, 2023
Donald Trump can't seem to decide whether he wants to execute drug dealers or free them from prison.... Read More
The Overzealous Prosecutors of Jan. 6 Jun. 02, 2023
"Government," observed the 14th-century Arab political theorist Ibn Khaldoun, "is an institution whi... Read More
Capital Punishment Still Serves Its Purpose. Don't Abolish It. Nov. 19, 2021
Bowing to intense political pressure, Oklahoma's Kevin Stitt, the Republican governor of one of the ... Read More
'Boring' Home Confinement Can Lead to Trouble Apr. 04, 2020
I got a letter recently that made me wonder what Americans are doing to pass the time during the cur... Read More
Short Takes on Territorial Trivialities and Nursing No-Nos May. 06, 2019
Don't Sweat the Trivial Stuff Remember the war in Afghanistan? That is, the longest war in U.S. hist... Read More
The Ultimate Proof of Guilt Mar. 14, 2019
No longer can there be any doubt that Paul Manafort expects Donald Trump to pardon him — and t... Read More
Justice Is Distorted When Courts Turn Into Profit-Generating Centers Dec. 17, 2018
There is no legal or moral justification for rural Missouri counties to continue their policies of c... Read More
Think Crime Doesn't Pay? Probation-Monitoring Companies Beg to Differ. Nov. 29, 2018
They say that crime doesn't pay. But "they" weren't talking about the booming for-profit industry th... Read More
Why Trump Sees Bias at the Justice Department Aug. 26, 2018
WASHINGTON — "Double standard?" President Donald Trump guffawed after Fox News anchor Ainsley ... Read More
The Reality of Young People Sentenced to Life Without Parole Aug. 25, 2018
Last week, I wrote about the plight of Pamela Smart, who, in 1991, at the age of 22, was found guilt... Read More
Obama's Inexcusable Commutation Jan. 20, 2017
I highly doubt that President Obama commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence out of compassion — an... Read More
Justice Department Will Phase out of Private Prisons. It's a Start Aug. 23, 2016
The Justice Department's decision to begin phasing out the use of private prisons is at once a miles... Read More
Sex Offender or Boy Next Door? Sep. 10, 2015
This should tell you something about how meaningless and capricious the "sex offender" label is: Zac... Read More
Death Penalty for Tsarnaev Hurts Boston May. 19, 2015
Why was 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced to die in a state so generally opposed to capital pu... Read More
Freed Prisoner of the Drug War May. 04, 2014
MOBILE, Ala. — "That situation didn't define who I was," Clarence Aaron, 45, told a group gath... Read More
