Vol. 133 No. 6 Introduction Mac was three years old and Anya was five when, sitting in the family car, they watched a police officer arrest their mother...
Vol. 133 No. 6 It is tempting to assume that the United States has fifty distinct state prison systems. For a time, that assumption was correct. In the...
Vol. 133 No. 2 America’s first system for punishing criminals with solitary confinement began at the Walnut Street Jail, an institution that stood right behind Independence Hall in...
Vol. 133 No. 1 Congress fundamentally changed the punishment of federal crimes in the 1980s and almost entirely for the worse. The Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984...
Vol. 132 No. 8 Federal immigration enforcement turns increasingly on criminal law outcomes, with criminal convictions triggering deportability, detention, and ineligibility for discretionary relief. In fiscal year 2018,...