This AP article, headlined "Mother Sentenced to 7 Months in College Admissions Scam," reports on the high-profile federal sentencing that went forward in Boston by video conference

yesterday.  Here are the basics: A California woman was sentenced Tuesday to seven months in prison for paying bribes to rig her two daughters' college admissions [...]

As reported in this Politico piece, "Federal prisons are ordering inmates confined to their cells for the next two weeks in order to fight spread of the coronavirus in the

cramped confines of U.S. Government-run penal institutions." Here is more (with links from the original): The lockdown will begin Thursday and could be extended, [...]

As regular readers know, in many prior posts since enactment of the FIRST STEP Act, I have made much of the provision that allows federal courts to directly reduce sentences

under the (so-called compassionate release) statutory provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) without awaiting a motion by the Bureau of Prisons.  I have long [...]

Colleen V. Chien, Zuyan Huang, Jacob Kuykendall and Katie Rabago (Santa Clara University - School of Law, Santa Clara University, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Santa

Clara University, School of Law, Students) have posted The Washington State Second Chance... [...]

Miriam H. Baer (Brooklyn Law School) has posted Designing Corporate Leniency Programs (Cambridge Handbook on Compliance, D. Sokol & B. van Rooij, eds., forthcoming) on SSRN.

Here is the abstract: Corporate leniency programs promise putative offenders reduced punishment and fewer... [...]

This local piece from California report that, "California is granting early release to 3,500 inmates in an effort to reduce crowding as coronavirus infections begin spreading

through the state prison system." Here is more: Lawyers for Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday told a panel of federal judges the state is taking “extraordinary and [...]

In recent posts here and here, I have rounded up just some of the many headlines and news stories that detail how coronavirus cases among inmates and staff are impacting jails

and prisons nationwide.  As we close out March, another round-up of these stories proves even more discouraging with news of ever-growing numbers of cases in ever-growing [...]

Paul G. Cassell and Margaret Garvin (University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law and Lewis & Clark Law School) have posted Protecting Crime Victims in State Constitutions:

The Example of the New Marsy's Law For Florida (110 Journal... [...]

The title of this post is the title of this recent commentary by Jennifer Doleac, which gets started this way (with links from the original): Concerns over the rapid spread

of coronavirus in jails and prisons have led to calls for inmates’ early release in order to reduce the spread of the virus.  As a result, jail and prison populations are falling [...]

Brandon L. Garrett, Karima Modjadidi, Kristen Renberg and Travis Seale-Carlisle (Duke University School of Law, Duke University School of Law, Duke University School of Law

and affiliation not provided to SSRN) have posted an abstract of Life Without Parole Sentencing... [...]