In the criminal justice system, incarceration is often seen as being justified by the desert of offenders: because they are guilty—morally, and not merely legally, guilty—we can impose significant ...

Bright-line rules and zero-tolerance policies tend to simplify complex problems at the expense of fairness and nuance. President Joe Biden's recent decision to commute the sentences of 37 federal ...

Last week, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 federal inmates. The administration bragged that it was the largest single-day granting of clemency in American history. But a ...