Updates
Justice Advocacy Group is Pleased to Announce it has Partnered with MCM Data Consulting
MCM Data Consulting is the culmination of a decade of experience analyzing federal sentencing data maintained by the United States Sentencing Commission (U.S.S.C.). Utilizing this U.S.S.C. data, MCM Data Consulting prepares analyses for defense attorneys to ensure that an individual’s recommended sentence is in line with sentences imposed on similarly-situated individuals. The U.S.S.C. data contains…
U.S.S.C. / Drug Sentence Reductions
Press release from the United States Sentencing Commission announcing latest drug sentence reduction amendments to guidelines as retroactive. 46,290 inmates eligible to have cases reviewed by the courts. Average sentence reduction potentially up to two years. Criteria based on public safety factors and general appropriateness. Courts begin hearing individual petitions in November 2014: U.S.S.C. / Unanimously…
Federal Prosecutions
The experience of this particular client offers pertinent insights into corporate related considerations regarding federal prosecutions: What Every White Collar Executive Needs to Know A sitting Federal Judge comments frankly and insightfully on the nature of many federal prosecutions and their plea bargaining methods: Why Innocent People Plead Guilty
U.S. Incarceration Rate Highest in the World
Department of Justice Correctional Data: Correctional Populations in the United States: DOJ Correctional Statistics Memo PEW Research Study / One in 100 – Behind Bars in America: PEW Research Study: Incarceration Rate in U.S. as Highest in the World
U.S. DOJ / BOP Re-Entry Policy Developments
Expanding opportunities for pre-release and community reintegration as promoted by the DOJ: U.S. DOJ: Attorney General Eric Holder Convenes Inaugural Cabinet-Level Re-Entry Council President Obama and Attorney General Holder’s developing policies and budget commitments regarding alternatives to incarceration and community re-entry: U.S. DOJ: Attorney General Holder Announces President Obama’s Budget – Proposes $173 Million for…