UC Hastings Hosts Conference on California Corrections:  Doug Berman at Sentencing Law and Policy provides links to U.C. Hastings College of the Law's "California Correctional Crisis" Conference and its program.  The conference will take place next Thursday and Friday at the California State Building in San Francisco.  It will feature panels on sentencing reform, special prison populations, and prisoners release back into the community.  Berman also reports that the organizers of the conference (U.C. Hastings College of the Law and Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal) have set up a blog to provide "News, Updates and Opinions on Sentencing and Corrections in California." 

New Federal Sentencing Reporter Issue on Sex Offenders:  Yesterday, Doug Berman posted a link to the major articles in the newest issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter.  The newest issue focuses on recent developments in the punishment and management of sex offenders.  The issue features an article from Michael O'Hear an associate dean at Marquette Law School, and an article Corey Rayburn Yung, the lead blogger of the Sex Crimes.

Mini U.S. Supreme Court "StatPack": Kristina Moore posted a mini Supreme Court "StatPack" on SCOTUSblog yesterday detailing the Court's docket and statistics for the 08-09 term.  March's "StatPack" includes a Circuit Scorecard and information about the authors of each opinion by sitting.  According to Moore, all of the cases that were authored in October (except Arizona v. Gant) have been decided, and Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts and F.C.C. v. Fox Television Stations are the only remaining decisions from the November sittings.