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"Alternative Sentencing in the Federal Criminal Justice System"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this important new document now appearing on the US Sentencing Commission's website.  Here is how the USSC's describes its contents: This publication provides an in-depth analysis of alternative sentences for federal offenders. It explains the types of alternative sentences available to sentencing courts under federal law, and the extent to which courts impose those sentences. The publication focuses on those offenders who are eligible for alternative sentences and the demographic and offense characteristics of the offenders who receive these sentences. Though more descriptive than normative, this new USSC document concludes with this very valuable paragraph (that perhaps can and should be cut-and-pasted into many defense sentencing submissions): Effective alternative sanctions are important options for federal, state, and local criminal justice systems...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 06, 2009 (boomark / email).