Paul Mirengoff at Powerline has this post on the recent BJS recidivism study (discussed in this post) and its implications for the so-called "prison reform" legislation pending in Congress:
The results of the study should deter the Senate from embracing the FIRST STEP legislation passed by the House just before the BJS figures were published. Indeed, the BJS numbers undermine FIRST STEP in multiple ways.
I will have more to say on the bill later. On a first read, though, it appears to have been written by people with a unicorns-and-rainbows view of prisoners and the value of "programs."
http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2018/05/fuzzy-math-and-fuzzy-logic-in-criticisms-of-federal-first-step-act-based-in-old-state-recidivism-dat.html
Thanks for the plug, fuzzyone, and I quite eager to hear Kent's take on the bill. I miss having Bill as blogger to provide his views on federal reform proposals, but I am sure Kent's take will be sharp.