Wednesday, January 27, 2016

More on Governor Brown's Sentencing Initiative

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This is a follow-up to my initial comments  on the proposed initiative, titled The Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016,   I've ...
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BREAKING NEWS: Brown's Proposed Sentencing Reform Pulls Us Back to the Future

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Just two days after the Supreme Court's encouraging decision in Montgomery v. Louisiana and President Obama's announcement of a s...
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Monday, January 25, 2016

SCOTUS Offers Hope for Lifers Without Parole Sentenced When They Were Juveniles

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In 1963, Henry Montgomery killed a police officer. His murder conviction in Louisiana, for "guilty without capital punishment", ca...
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

No New Jail in San Francisco... Now What?

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The long-standing debate about the construction of an alternative to San Francisco's Jail no. 4 at 850 Bryant ended yesterday with a vic...
Saturday, December 5, 2015

Reiter on Solitary Confinement

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Keramet Reiter of UC Irvine has recently done a Q&A with the Berkeley Human Rights Center on solitary confinement, her topic of expertis...
Saturday, November 28, 2015

Podcast Review: Serial

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On the last episode of the acclaimed podcast Serial , Sarah Koenig speaks to a retired police detective and asks him whether any murder ca...
Sunday, November 22, 2015

Film Review: Ant-Man

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I’m on my way back home from the American Society ofCriminology annual meeting in Washington, DC, where I learned lots of interesting th...