This supplement brings the principal text current with recent developments in the law.

This leading casebook covers both sentencing and correctional law and policy. The cases, statutes, sentencing guidelines, professional standards, articles, statistics, and questions will catalyze debates on such controversial subjects as the sanctioning of drug offenders, the ; enmeshed penalties; (collateral consequences) that attend a conviction, and prisoners' constitutional rights.New coverage of seminal Supreme Court cases, ABA Standards on Treatment of Prisoners, proposals for ; restorative sentences,; and sentencing advocacy from a holistic-defense perspective confirm the value of this resource on very core, and complex, areas of the law.

An excellent reference tool, this book explores a range of sentencing-related topics, including the principal purposes of criminal sentences, restorative justice, guilty pleas and plea bargaining, different ways to structure sentencing systems, procedural rights during sentencing proceedings, sentencing evidence, community-based sentences, the death penalty, Eighth Amendment constraints on sentences in noncapital cases, parole release, probation and parole revocation, and enmeshed penalties (often called the "collateral consequences" of a conviction). The latter half of the book contains an illuminating overview of the constitutional rights of incarcerated people, details on litigating their civil-rights suits challenging conditions of confinement and their treatment while incarcerated, and the remedies available to them.

Originally published: 2012. First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback 2015.

Since the publication of the fourth edition of this casebook in 1990, there have been a number of developments in the areas of correctional and sentencing law and policy ... This supplement covers the most pertinent of these developments.-Pref.