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A close look at Alabama's experiences with sentencing reform

By Douglas A. Berman

In my view, there is clearly far too little scholarship on state sentencing systems (and probably too much on the federal sentencing system). It is thus exciting and refreshing to see this new piece on SSRN by Joseph Colquitt, titled "Can Alabama Handle the Truth (in Sentencing)?." Here is its abstract: This Essay examines truth in sentencing, discusses its strengths and weaknesses, and analyzes what it will mean for Alabama.  The piece neither seeks to support or oppose the existing legislative mandate to adopt truth in sentencing in Alabama.  Rather, the Essay seeks to shed light on the issues, induce a healthy dialogue, and encourage the involved parties to garner a broad base of knowledge, carefully deliberate, properly design Alabama's truth-in-sentencing scheme, and ensure that the state has built the necessary infrastructure to support truth in sentencing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 01, 2009 (boomark / email).