My dad always said that figures lie and liars figure. To salute that truism, let’s look at statistics to illustrate to profound impact that mandatory minimums and the sentencing guidelines have ...
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The federal grand jury in Brooklyn returned an indictment on Wednesday that makes me wonder if most BOP prison yards will have enough soccer pitches to accommodate the almost certain influx of inmates ...
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"Pine box parole" is an euphemism used to describe the plight of a federal criminal defendant who received a life sentence (or one so long it might as well have been life). In Fiscal Year ...
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In 1994, in response to an incident at USP Marion where two guards were killed, the BOP opened ADX Florence, its only supermax facility. There have been many mysteries swirling around life at ADX but ...
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