Highligthing great new guest posts at the Sentencing Matters Substack (and welcoming more)

I have been (somewhat inconsistently) highlighting here the weekly posts at the Sentencing Matters Substack that some colleagues and I host to publish longer-form essays on an array of sentencing topics.  I am especially pleased that this month we have published two great new guest posts in that forum:

From Katie Kronick, "Why is it So Hard for Courts to Adjust to Advancements in Knowledge of Human Behavior?: A Death Penalty Case Study"

From Norman Reimer, "First Steps and Second Chances: A Review of "A Second Chance": a Federal Judge’s Perspective on Compassionate Release and a System in Need of Reform"

We are planning a final 2024 substack post new week that provides a brief review of some of the substack's coverage, and it also provides this open invitation for more outside contributions:

We genuinely appreciate you reading our essays and being part of this project.  Through our writing, we are trying to uncover an insight or two and share that thinking in a mildly interesting way.  We hope you will continue to join us as we grapple with the important issues of crime and punishment, remorse and forgiveness, policymaking and politics, law and judging, and freedom and justice in the year to come.  We’d love to hear from you now and then.  And we’d love to bring in new voices to this conversation, including yours, including those serving -- or who have served -- time in prison, victims of crime, prosecutors, defense lawyers, probation officers, judges, other academics, and just other everyday citizens.  We’ve tried to create an aesthetic on this Substack that is serious, at times just a little bit snarky, but always gracious.  If you’re at all inclined to contribute something, let us know.