Second Look Sentencing
Reports Journal Articles News Articles Model Legislation Webinars
Reports
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A Second Look at Injustice, The Sentencing Project, May 2021.
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Joint Statement on Sentencing Second Chances and Addressing Past Extreme Sentences, Fair and Just Prosecution, April 2021.
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No End In Sight: America's Enduring Reliance on Life Imprisonment, The Sentencing Project, February 2021.
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Policies & Polling on Reducing Excessive Prison Terms, Data for Progress, February 2020.
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Revisiting Past Extreme Sentences, Fair and Just Prosecution, 2020.
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A Second Chance Starts with a Second Look, FAMM, 2019.
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Long-Term Sentences: Time to Reconsider the Scale of Punishment, Sentencing Project, November 2018.
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Crime Survivors Speak, Alliance for Safety and Justice, April 2016.
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A Second Look at Alleviating Jail Crowding, U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, October 2000.
Journal Articles
- Michael Serota, Second Looks & Criminal Legislation, Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, December 2019.
- Shon Hopwood, Associate Professor of Law; Georgetown University Law Center - Second Looks & Second Chances, Cardoza Law Review, October 2019.
- M. Eve Hanan, Incapacitating Errors: Sentencing and the Science of Change, Denver Law Review, December 2019.
News Articles
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Second Look Sentencing: A (Running) Reading List for Legislators, Staff, Advocates, and Everyone Else, Greg Newburn Blog, last visited March 8, 2021.
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Prosecutors Must Add Sentencing Review Units to Their Offices, The Appeal, Feb. 25, 2021.
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A Second Look at Unjust Prison Terms, Los Angeles Daily News, Jan. 12, 2021.
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Resentencing Units can Rectify, Rehabilitate and Restore, The Appeal, Dec. 8 2020.
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A growing group of prosecutors, who say the job is more than locking people up, wants to help free criminals, too, Washington Post, Dec. 7, 2020.
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Taking a Second Look at Life Imprisonment, Boston Globe, Nov. 7 2019.
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Judges should be able to take a 'second look' at prison sentencing, FAMM, June 20, 2019.
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DAs Who Want to Set the Guilty Free, The Marshall Project, March 20, 2018.
Model Legislation
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Model Second Look Legislation, NACDL, December 2020.
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Model District Attorney Sentence Review Guidelines, Justice Collaborative, 2020.
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“Ohio Second Look Statute,” The Ohio State University: Moritz College of Law, June 2020.
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Model Penal Code, American Law Institute, June 2017.
Webinars
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Second Look = Second Chance: The Case for Reconsidering Lengthy & Other Extreme Sentences, NACDL, March 2021.
