Sound Sentencing Policy: Balancing Justice and Dollars
Agenda
Sunday - August 8, 2010
3:00 pm Registration Begins
5:00 pm NASC 2010 Conference Reception
Monday- August 9, 2010
7:30 am Breakfast
8:30 am Welcome Address
Honorable Sue Bell Cobb, Chief Justice, Alabama Supreme Court
Honorable William Pryor, Circuit Judge, 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Honorable Joseph Colquitt, Chair, Alabama Sentencing Commission
Meredith Farrar-Owens, Deputy Director, Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission and NASC President
9:00 am Plenary Session 1: Balancing
Justice and Dollars
Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb, Alabama Supreme Court
Patricia Riley, Special Counsel, U.S. Attorney’s Office for
the District of Columbia
Moderator: Kara Dansky, Director Stanford
Criminal Justice Center, Stanford School of Law and NASC
Vice President
10:30 am Morning Break
10:45 am Roundtable Discussions
Role of Sentencing Commissions: Commissions Rise and Lead
Honorable
Michael Marcus, Circuit Judge, Multnomah County Oregon
Circuit Court
Dabney Friedrich, Commissioner, U.S. Sentencing
Commission
Moderator: Dave Soulé, Director, Maryland
State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy
Drug Courts
Daniel Abrahamson,
Director of Legal Affairs, Drug Policy Alliance
West Huddleston, CEO, National Association of Drug Court
Professionals
Moderator: Helen Pedigo, Director, Kansas
Sentencing Commission
Project HOPE
Judge Steven S. Alm, Circuit Judge, Hawaii and founder of
Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement Program
Angela Hawken, Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University
Moderator: Linda
Holt, Research Director, Massachusetts Sentencing Commission
12:30 pm Luncheon
Honorable William Pryor, Circuit Judge, 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
2:00 pm Workshop Session 1:
Data Collection and Utilization Workshop
Dr. John Speir, Applied Research Services
Glenn Schmitt, Director, Office of Research and Data, U.S.
Sentencing Commission
Moderator: Melisa Morrison, Research Analyst, Alabama Sentencing
Commission
Bringing Risk/Needs to Scale Workshop
Brian Lovins, Research Associate, University of Cincinnati
Jennifer Fahey, Criminal Justice Consultant
Moderator: Craig Prins, Director, Oregon
Criminal Justice Commission
Truth in Sentencing Roundtable
Honorable
Joseph Colquitt, Chair, Alabama Sentencing Commission
Honorable Robert J. Humphreys, Virginia Court of Appeals
Jeff Edblad, Chair, Minnesota Sentencing Commission
Moderator: Lynda Flynt, Director, Alabama
Sentencing Commission
3:15 pm Afternoon Break
3:30 pm Workshops and Roundtable Continued
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
7:30 am Breakfast
8:30 am Plenary Session 2: State and Federal Sentencing: Lessons Learned from the Struggle to Balance Justice and Dollars
Bobby Vassar, Chief Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives
Honorable Floyd Prozanski, Senator, Oregon
Moderator: Meredith Farrar-Owens, Deputy Director, Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission and NASC President
10:00
am Morning Break
10:15 am Workshop Session 2:
Impact Analysis
Helen Pedigo, Director Kansas Sentencing Commission
Dr. Lou Reedt, Deputy Director,
Office of Research and Data, U.S. Sentencing Commission
Moderator:
Barb Tombs, Executive Director, DC
Sentencing and Criminal Code Revision Commission
Risk/Needs Assessment at Sentencing
Judge Michael Wolff, Missouri Supreme Court
David Oldfield, Director, Research and Evaluation, Missouri
Department of Corrections
Moderator:
Meredith Farrar-Owens, Deputy Director, Virginia Criminal
Sentencing Commission and NASC President
11:15 am 2nd Morning Break
11:30 am Workshop Session 2 Continued
12:30 pm Luncheon: NASC Business Meeting
2:00 pm Roll Call of States
Each state will be asked to discuss the challenges, other
than financial, that their sentencing commission and/or
criminal justice systems are facing, current or
controversial issues in their state, and innovative projects
that have been undertaken.
Moderator:
Cathy Zacharias, Legal Counsel, Office
of the State Courts Administrator, Oregon