Interesting start to the work week around the blogsphere

A quick late-afternoon tour of blogs has led me to a large number of sentencing-related items that merit noting and linking:

• White Collar Crim Prof Blog discusses the upcoming sentencings in high-profile white-collar cases involving Tyco defendants in state court and WorldCom defendants in federal court.

• The Supreme Court Nomination Blog here discusses John Roberts DC Circuit opinion in one noteworthy federal sentencing case.  My own series of posts exploring how a Justice Roberts might impact the Supreme Court's criminal sentencing jurisprudence are all linked here.   

• Grits for Breakfast thoughtfully examines at length here the challenges ex-offenders face finding employment.

• TalkLeft in this post takes a quick look at the private prison industry.

• Crim Prof Blog notes here an interesting new article on SSRN discussing Blakely and Crawford by Prof. Stephanos Bibas.

• And, to get a bit off-topic, I am doing some guest-blogging over at PrawfsBlawg.