Sentences with phrase «federal prison population»

What we can effectively see and measure are changes in federal sentencing laws and federal prosecutorial practices, and these changes suggest a set of intricate stories help account for recent federal prison population changes.

Sessions's memo and Trump's rhetoric about rampant crime in America's inner cities indicate the nation may be headed for an uptick in the federal prison population in the coming years.

From 1980 to 2013, the federal prison population increased by 800 percent, according to the DOJ.

Mandatory minimum penalties continue to significantly impact the size and composition of the federal prison population.

As reported in this prior post, the US Sentencing Commission earlier this month released a lengthy new publication titled «An Overview of Mandatory Minimum Penalties in the Federal Criminal Justice System» reviewing the use of federal mandatory minimum penalties and their impact on the federal prison population.

I will be especially watching how all these developments ultimately impact the US Sentencing Commission's data on cases sentenced (and average sentence imposed) in order to try to predict where the federal prison population may be headed next.

I would predict that the May 2017 Sessions charging / sentencing memo could contribute, over time, to increasing both the stock and the flow of the federal prison population.

... Canada's federal prison population... is now at a near - record 14,885, up nearly seven per cent in five years, even as crime rates have steadily fallen.