Starting Today, San Francisco Is Erasing Everybody's Misdemeanor Pot Convictions
Retroactivity is a powerful tool we don't use often enough.
Retroactivity is a powerful tool we don't use often enough.
A new poll says voters want change. They can get it if they truly want it.
Will Doug Jones be a paladin for criminal justice reform, or a squish?
Religious institutions and conservative groups join criminal justice reformers in calling on BOP to reform compassionate release.
Hardline prosecutors continue to beat the drum against any reduction in mandatory minimums.
Congress failed to pass a bill reforming mandatory minimums last year; now two senators want to try again.
Tomorrow New Hampshire becomes the 22nd state to eliminate that possibility.
Hope Zeferjohn's role was limited to chatting with the "victim"-who was never actually trafficked-on Facebook.
Enhanced sentences for rioting against a "protected class"? In two states, that now includes law enforcement.
The president lacks subtlety or substance over a chronic public health problem-go figure.
The law must be followed, even if breaking the law actually makes people safer.
"Compassionate release" is an excellent tool that the BOP refuses to use.
Passing federal sentencing reform will be the hardest thing he's ever done.
The attorney general is determined to reverse the recent trend toward more judicious use of severe penalties.
It looks like the policy Jeff Sessions rescinded did have a significant impact on the sentences received by nonviolent, low-level defendants.
The attorney general says there are no low-level, nonviolent drug offenders in federal prison.
Defending the DOJ's new, harsher charging policy, assistant U.S. attorneys say they only prosecute high-level offenders.
The impact of the new charging policy was not as big as the DOJ implied.
The attorney general wants prosecutors to maximize penalties for drug offenders, regardless of the threat they pose.
If successful, state would stop piling on more punishment for prior convictions.
The Sunshine State ratchets up the drug war.
The 2nd Circuit says the recommended prison term was "substantively unreasonable."
Florida's anti-opioid laws were supposed to take high-level traffickers off the streets. Instead, they put low-level users in prison for most of their lives.
The judge thinks committing a crime and looking at pictures of it are basically the same thing.
A cop was killed, so there will be no debate about morality of the system.
The fear and disgust triggered by this subject help explain why laws dealing with sex offenses involving minors frequently lead to bizarre results.
While overall drug sentences decline, federal methamphetamine offenders still aren't benefiting from the last decade of criminal justice reforms.
Trump's orders are "draconian" but Obama gets too much credit for too little actual criminal justice reform, according to famed civil liberties attorney.
Trump should not take his criminal justice cues from his attorney general.
Donald Trump and his attorney general take a dim view of Obama's mercy.
The president has now shortened more sentences than any of his predecessors.
The reaction to the Facebook Live attack shows how recognizing special victims politicizes justice and foments discord.
The percentage of adults under correctional supervision last year was the lowest since 1994.
How to dodge responsibility, whether you're a candidate or a cop.
Only 20 were executed in 2016, the fewest since 1991.
Obama has not issued more pardons and commutations than any other president or the most in a single day.
A new report concludes that two-fifths of Americans in prison don't belong there.
Fears that a Trump administration will not be as merciful.
Bipartisan sentencing reforms and falling crime rates have played a much bigger role than commutations or DOJ policy.
Another 79 granted mercy over federal drug war sentences.
Jeff Sessions opposes sentencing reform, defends civil forfeiture, and criticizes the Obama administration for letting states legalize marijuana.
Donald Graham got one year for each of the two drug offenses he committed as a teenager, then life at 30.
Today, 72 federal drug war prisoners get sentences reduced.
Group says Santa Fe tosses misdemeanor violators in jail if they can't pay-and starves them, too.
How a peaceful pot grower got 15 years as a "career offender"
He could still surpass Nixon in percentage of petitions granted.
Commutations and reforms can only ameliorate the inherent injustice of prohibition.