Sentences with phrase «federal sentencing reform»

I will now likely use the long weekend (which I am about to start by going off - line for a while) to reflect on the current federal sentencing reform «big picture» circa mid-2016.

For the time being, the prospects of any congressional federal sentencing reform rests primarily in the hands of Senate Leader Mitch McConnell and Prez Donald Trump.

It's too soon to tell what Jones» election means for federal sentencing reform.

The final section offers eight specific suggestions for federal sentencing reform.

But this latest speech also indirectly addresses the latest bipartisan talk of federal sentencing reform and covers some other new ground.

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This year would seem to present a new opportunity for needed bipartisan federal sentencing reform.

Rather than bemoan reactions to the border agent cases, I want to issue a challenge to leaders in Congress: Will anyone in the House or Senate have the courage to use the border agent case as an opportunity to discuss and move forward with needed federal sentencing reforms?

Many people for sensible reasons think the fate of federal sentencing reforms now will turn on who is the next occupant in the Oval Office and who controls the Senate.

But I really believe that if Oklahoma voters end up significantly supporting sentencing reform in their state (especially if Trump wins in OK by, say, a 55/40 vote but then sentencing reform is supported by a 60/40 vote), we all can and should become a lot more optimistic about even federal sentencing reforms over the next decade no matter who is in control in DC.

Those realities likely mean that the new Senate 51 - 49 math and the new voice of Senator - elect Jones will not in any major way directly impact the prospects for congressional federal sentencing reforms in the months ahead.

Not exact matches

End Illegal Immigration Act Fully - funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2 - year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5 - year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.

In what will had more grist for the mill when it comes to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call for ethics reform in the state Legislature, Leibell was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for his role in a bribery and kickback scheme.

Ethics reform also remains unresolved, in a year when both former leaders of the legislature were sentenced to prison for corruption, and state and federal prosecutors are looking at Governor Cuomo's economic development projects.

Ethics reform is being discussed, but in a year where both former leaders of the legislature have been sentenced to prison, and there's on going state and federal investigations of the governor's economic development programs, it's unclear what will ultimately be agreed upon.

Lawmakers had more trouble getting agreements on ethics reforms, in a year that's seen the two former legislative leaders sentenced to prison and state and federal probes of Governor Cuomo's economic development programs.

Also, ethics reform remains unresolved, in a year when both former leaders of the legislature have been sentenced to prison for corruption, and state and federal prosecutors are looking at Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development projects.

A lot of worrisome «smaller» federal sentencing issues that could benefit most from congressional oversight and legislative reform — the application of the Armed Career Criminal Act, child porn victim restitution awards, fast - track departures, the persistent growth of the federal criminal docket — did not even get mentioned.

Notably, in an effort to cover all her bases, Judge Robinson did close her McBride opinion by stating: «And, if the federal sentencing guidelines were declared facially invalid, in imposing a sentence under the indeterminate regime predating the Sentence Reform Act, this Court would impose the very sentence it imposes nowsentence under the indeterminate regime predating the Sentence Reform Act, this Court would impose the very sentence it imposes nowSentence Reform Act, this Court would impose the very sentence it imposes nowsentence it imposes now.»

This issue (Volume 18, No. 5) is entitled «Toward Real Reform: The Constitution Project Recommendations; Model Federal Sentencing Guidelines.»

Because sentencing reform in the form of the SRCA (or anything better) seems unlikely to move until there is a new President and / or Attorney General, criticizing efforts to move forward with just prison reform strikes me as tantamount to resigning oneself to the federal sentencing and corrections status quo until at least 2021.

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In 2015, Senator Chuck Grassley introduced a long awaited bi-partisan criminal justice reform bill designed to address inequities in federal sentencing and promote rehabilitation and re-entry for persons who are incarcerated.

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.

We offer this Issue in the hope that Congress will look seriously at revising the federal system in light of Blakely and Booker and that, in the spirit of the SRA, Congress will want to draw on contemporary expertise and the evolving «intellectual history» of sentencing knowledge in further reforming the federal sentencing system.

As regular readers know, Attorney General Sessions has made much of rising crime rates in his criticisms of Obama era criminal justice reforms and in his defense of his recent decision to toughen federal prosecutorial charging and sentencing practices.

Why it matters: Democrats scored several wins on this version of the bill, but it still might not be enough to secure approval without reforms to federal sentencing guidelines.

April 19, 2018 in Aspects and impact of Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act, Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Prisons and prisoners, Reentry and community supervision, Who Sentences?

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.

I also think this news provides an approrpriate opportunity to begin a series of commentary posts about criminal justice reform during the Obama era, which I will be calling «Missed Opportunities: The Failure of Prez Obama to bring real Hope and Change to Federal Sentencing.»