Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Sentencing Law and Policy A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network

Knock and the door shall be opened, ask and it shall be given, Seek and you shall/will find, we can't complain about what we allow...see for yourself. Don't make a difference for once be the "Difference" for "ONCE"....!!!!!!

SO AM I

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Felon disenfranchisement gets brief spotlight in latest GOP debate

While I am still (impatiently) waiting for the GOP candidates to get some hard questions about the drug war, my eagerness for some criminal justice talk on the campaign trail was satiated a bit during last night's GOP candidate debate through a verbal tussle on the issue of voting rights for felons.  This CBS News story, headlined "Santorum hammers Romney over felon voting rights," provides this report:

Monday, January 16, 2012

"Racial Disparity in Federal Criminal Charging and Its Sentencing Consequences"

The title of this post is the title of this important and potent new paper by Professors Marit Rehavi and Sonja Starr, and it seems especially fitting to post it on MLK Day.  Here is the abstract:

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