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Effective NYU Center letter on USSC priorities

By Douglas A. Berman

I noted in this recent post the launch of New York University School of Law's Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, and now I am pleased to spotlight this letter that the Center sent to the US Sentencing Commission proposing the forecasting of the fiscal costs, and the racial and ethnic impact of, pending federal criminal legislation to be a key Commission priority.  Here is how this letter begins:The Center proposes that among the top priorities for the next amendment cycle, the Commission include two key issues that are currently absent from the Commission?s agenda. First, given the rising costs of incarceration and the increasingly limited available federal prison space, the Commission should forecast the fiscal costs of any provision affecting sentencing in pending criminal legislation prior to congressional enactment and should similarly forecast the costs of any proposed Commission amendment to the Guidelines before those amendments go into effect...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 05, 2008 (boomark / email).