About This Blog
Since September 2010, I’ve been using this blog as a way to organize new information and ideas I encounter about sentencing and related topics, and to do a little “thinking out loud.” New posts appear Monday mornings and sometimes later during the week.
Since there are already a number of outstanding blogs that track sentencing and criminal law, the reader may be interested to know my particular areas of focus: federal criminal law and procedure (especially Seventh Circuit), Wisconsin criminal law and procedure, U.S. Supreme Court, post-conviction remedies, prisoner rights, victim rights, prisoner reentry, restorative justice, punishment theory, drug crime, history of crime and punishment, racial disparities in the criminal-justice system, Sixth and Eighth Amendment rights, and the psychology of punishment.
I have no ideological ax to grind, and I hope not to be pigeonholed as either conservative or liberal, although it is fair to say that I think long prison terms are overused in the United States and are rarely (if ever) appropriate in cases that do not involve serious violence.
