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• One in 11 Prisoners Serving Life Sentences

  A new report released by The Sentencing Project finds a record 140,610 individuals are now serving life sentences in state and federal prisons, 6,807 of whom were juveniles at the time of the crime. In addition, 29% of persons serving a life sentence... Posted Jul 23 2009, 01:41 PM by jgustfsn with Filed under: Sentencing, Corrections Costs, Public Policy

• Sex Offender Registration Update

  The Office of Justice Programs ' Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART) has posted the most recent addition to the Sex Offender Registration Law Update series. Posted Mar 18 2009, 09:04 AM by CC Pro with Filed under: Sentencing, Sex offenders, Legal issue, Sex Offender Registry

• State Sentencing and Corrections Legislation

  The National Conference of State Legislatures has published a report that examines state legislative actions during 2007, the elements that drove these actions, and the potential impact of sentencing and corrections in the near term. Principal legislative... Posted Mar 26 2008, 02:17 PM by CC Pro with Filed under: Incarceration rates, Sentencing, Corrections Reform, Public administration, Legislation, Corrections Costs

• How Are the States Coping?

  In an era of budget shortages and policy reconsiderations, the Sentencing Project has produced a summary document of state criminal justice policy reforms and legislation, The State of Sentencing 2007 : Developments in Policy and Practice. Stateline.org... Posted Jan 24 2008, 09:37 AM by Eileen Conway with Filed under: Sentencing, Legislation

• U.S.Sentencing Commission Revisits Crack Cocaine Sentencing

  The U.S. Sentencing Commission , which sets guidelines for federal prison sentences, voted unanimously "to allow some 19,500 federal prison inmates, most of them black, to seek reductions in their crack cocaine sentences." Eligible inmates would... Posted Dec 12 2007, 10:50 AM by CC Pro with Filed under: Legal issues, Sentencing, Racial disparities, U.S. Sentencing Commission

• Supreme Court to Examine Sentencing Disparities Between Crack & Powder Cocaine

  The Supreme Court has decided "to review whether judges are required to impose dramatically longer sentences for crack cocaine than for cocaine powder, stepping into a long-running dispute with racial overtones." Article here. Posted Jun 14 2007, 03:15 PM by CC Pro with Filed under: Supreme Court, Sentencing, Legal issue

• California's Sentencing Law Struck Down

  In a ruling that could affect current state inmate sentences, the United States Supreme Court today found that California's determinant sentencing law violates a defendant's right to trial by jury. In Cunningham v. California , the Supreme Court... Posted Jan 22 2007, 09:53 AM by Eileen Conway with Filed under: Supreme Court, Sentencing