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News March 15, 2018
If You Can’t Kill It, Join It
Trump’s nominee to this panel called it “an overfed lemur.”
By Justin George
Commentary February 7, 2018
Waiting for Justice
One man’s seven-year wait for a trial reveals the ways mandatory minimums distort our courts.
Jeffrey Bellin
News June 18, 2017
He Walked Out of Prison After 11 Years — Now the State Wants Him Back
After 18 months of freedom, Robert Woodall may be headed back behind bars.
By Marella Gayla
Analysis February 12, 2016
Justice Reform, RIP?
The vaunted bipartisan drive to enact federal criminal justice reform is not quite dead. But its pulse is faint.
By Bill Keller
Analysis November 6, 2015
The Dissenters
Not everybody is aboard the criminal justice reform bandwagon. Here’s why.
By Maurice Chammah
News July 23, 2015
Federal Prisons Could Release 1,000 Times More Drug Offenders Than Obama Did
New, retroactive sentencing guidelines begin to kick in.
By Beth Schwartzapfel
Analysis July 22, 2015
The Nonviolent Offenders Congress Forgot
While prison reform gains momentum, the immigration debate remains “tough on crime.”
By Christie Thompson
News January 20, 2015
‘My Fellow Americans’
Reimagining the president's State of the Union speech.
By Andrew Cohen
News November 17, 2014
Right and Left Unite on Drug Sentencing. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Will Senator Grassley kill the Smarter Sentencing Act?
By Christie Thompson
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