The U.S. Sentencing Commission introduced a Judiciary Sentencing INformation platform (JSIN) — a sentencing data tool that provides judges, defense lawyers and the public with online access to limited national sentencing data. However, JSIN isn't perfect and has many flaws.
A Prison Policy Initiative's grading report on the Parole Release system speaks a lot about how the treatment towards incarcerated people changes in different states.
Two new SCOTUS petitions raise "stacking" issues under the First Step Act that could impact compassionate releases as well.