Sentencing Reform

Legislative Summaries

• The State of Sentencing 2008, The Sentencing Project, February 2009
• Drug Policy Alliance: State by State Legislative Summary

• "U.S. Commission to Assess Mandatory Sentences," by Gary Fields. The Wall Street Journal, November 12, 2009.
• ABA Kennedy Commission

• NACDL Blakely Page
• ABA Kennedy Commission Home Page
• ACLU: Sentencing/Prisons
• Brennan Center for Justice
• Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
• Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants
• Correctional Association of New York
• Drug Policy Alliance
• Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM)
• Families to Amend California Three Strikes (FACTS)
• Justice Policy Institute
• The Sentencing Project
• Vera Institute of Justice - State Sentencing & Corrections

• "The Diminishing Returns of Increased Incarceration," JFA Institute
• "Positive Trends in State-Level Sentencing & Corrections Policy," FAMM Report, Nov. 03
• "Cost & Benefits? The Impact of Drug Imprisonment in New Jersey," Justice Policy Institute Report, Oct. 03
• "Race & Incarceration in Maryland," Justice Policy Institute Report, Oct. 03
• "Dollars & Sentences: Legislators' Views on Prisons, Punishment & the Budget Crisis," Vera Institute Report, Jul. 03
• "Is the Budget Crisis Changing the Way We Look at Sentencing & Incarceration?" Vera Institute Report, Jun. 02
• National Survey of Revisory Power over Sentences

• Regarding Overreliance on Incarceration
• Regarding Racial Disparity
• Regarding Commutations
• Regarding Prison Conditions & Reentry
• ABA Kennedy Commission Home Page (includes fact sheet, recommendations, press release, etc.)

• "California Lawmakers Clash on Cew Criminal Sentences," San Jose Mercury News, June 7, 2007
• "Some Nevada Criminal Justice Reforms Move Ahead," Associated Press, June 4, 2007
• "Sentencing reform will help us get smart on crime," by Stephen Saloom, Knight-Ridder Tribune, Sept. 8, 2004
• "Treat, don't jail, low-level druggies," by Leslie Crocker Snyder, New York Daily News, Feb. 18, 2004
• "Finally, States Release the Pressure on Prisons," by Vincent Schiraldi, Justice Policy Institute, Nov. 30, 2003