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This kind of data showing still further (though smaller) increases in murders in 2017 on the heels of significant increases in 2015 and 2016 will likely only reinforce the views of AG Sessions and others in the Trump Administration that «tough and tougher» federal sentencing policies and practices are needed to enhance public safety.

Kudos to the USSC for continuing to release timely and informative reports as debates over federal sentencing policies and practices continue.

Federal Sentencing Policy: Role of the Judicial Conference of the United States and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts by Hon. Ricardo S. Martinez

Not exact matches

The change represents yet another way that Sessions, who served as a federal prosecutor at the height of the drug war in Mobile, Alabama, has reversed Obama - era criminal justice policies aimed at easing overcrowding in federal prisons and rethinking of how drug criminals are prosecuted and sentenced.

The New York City Bar Association released a report urging federal and state leaders to «make the reduction of mass incarceration a top priority» and offering several recommendations for changing sentencing laws and other policies.

ALBANY — Men who two years ago were huddling with Gov. Andrew Cuomo to set state policy have been sentenced to federal prison.

If you're really into federal ed policy, that was a meaningful sentence.)

A federal judge or magistrate will also consider the sentencing guidelines established by the United States Sentencing Commission which dictate a uniform sentencing policy for individuals and organizations convicted of federsentencing guidelines established by the United States Sentencing Commission which dictate a uniform sentencing policy for individuals and organizations convicted of federSentencing Commission which dictate a uniform sentencing policy for individuals and organizations convicted of federsentencing policy for individuals and organizations convicted of federal crimes.

The Sentencing Law & Policy blog posted a link yesterday to an article on al.com disclosing that the biggest beneficiary of federal education stimulus dollars given to Alabama has been the department of corrections.

I tend to support consideration of local conditions at sentencing, largely because I see the concept of «national sentencing uniformity» almost as a contradiction in terms given diverse federal caseloads and prosecutorial policies in the nation's 94 districts.

The impetus for Price's series and his underlying article («Enforcement Discretion and Executive Duty «-RRB- comes from several recent American episodes, such as President Obama's decision not to enforce certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act (see e.g. here), the policy not to pursue certain breaches of federal drug laws and the policy not to seek minimum sentences for some drug offences.

In late July, I lamented here the failure of the US Sentencing Commission to take a leading role in the post-Blakely policy conversation about the future of federal sSentencing Commission to take a leading role in the post-Blakely policy conversation about the future of federal sentencingsentencing.

Significantly, Congress has never made a formal policy decision that federal judges should base sentence increases on acquitted conduct.

'' On Crack Sentencing: 100 Times Zero Is Still Zero from Drug Law Blog Prof. Berman at the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog continues to argue that the recent tweak to the federal sentencing guidelines around crack is, in his words, soooo siSentencing: 100 Times Zero Is Still Zero from Drug Law Blog Prof. Berman at the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog continues to argue that the recent tweak to the federal sentencing guidelines around crack is, in his words, soooo siSentencing Law and Policy Blog continues to argue that the recent tweak to the federal sentencing guidelines around crack is, in his words, soooo sisentencing guidelines around crack is, in his words, soooo significant.

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Danielle currently represents a Wisconsin nonprofit organization in state and federal court in suits involving the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a death - sentenced Georgia inmate and is involved in other civil rights matters.

H.R. 4261, the Safe, Accountable, Fair, and Effective (SAFE) Justice Act takes a broad - based approach to improving the federal sentencing and corrections system, spanning from sentencing reform to release policies.

When Congress created the Commission, Congress empowered it to serve «as a clearinghouse and information center» about federal sentencing and to assist Congress, the federal courts, and federal departments in the development of sound sentencing policies.

And, interestingly, we never hear complaints or concerns about unelected federal prosecutors making policy judgments at sentencing (even though prosecutorial policy judgments are not made in open court nor subject to any kind of review).

In discussion of post-Booker federal sentencing at the Yale Law School class I recently had the pleasure of attending, I was surprised to often hear the refrain that judges «should not make policy judgments» at sentencing.

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In sum, I questions the assertion that federal judges «should not make policy judgments» at sentencing because: (1) such judgments seem inevitable and are clearly made by prosecutors in every criminal case, and (2) a fair reading of the text of 3553 (a) suggests that Congress has ordered federal judges to make individualized policy judgments in each and every sentencing.

Furthermore, it seems that Congress, through the text of 3553 (a), has told federal judges to make individualized policy judgments at sentencing.

But in many areas of law judges construct or interpret the policies underlying a body of law; they need to do that with federal sentencing law.

A significant note from the Duke Law Journal by Joanna Huang with the above title has been posted today September 29 on the Sentencing Law and Policy blog According to Ms. Huang, ``... in 1987 the United States political and social systems lost trust in the judiciary and severely limited its authority by enacting the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.»

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While comprehensive reforms to lower federal mandatory minimum sentences remain aspirational, there are other policies on which the right and left agree that could have as much, if not more, impact in reducing the nation's incarcerated population while maintaining public safety.