July 2024
Sample of Public Comment Received on Proposed Priorities
89 FR 48029
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No. 1 – Research Recommendations
- U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock (D), Georgia
- Committee on Criminal Law of the Judicial Conference of the United States
- Circuit Judge Rachel Bloomekatz
- Circuit Judge Stephen Higginson
- Chief District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan
- Chief District Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner
- Chief District Judge Kimberly Mueller
- Senior District Judge William Haskell Alsup
- Senior District Judge Nora Barry Fischer
- Senior District Judge James S. Gwin
- Senior District Judge Joan Lefkow
- Senior District Judge Stefan Underhill
- District Judge Stephen R. Bough (June 7, 2024)
- District Judge Stephen R. Bough (June 13, 2024)
- District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman
- District Judge Rodolfo A. Ruiz, II
- District Judge Jennifer Wilson
- Practitioners Advisory Group
- Victims Advisory Group
- Center for Justice and Human Dignity & Aleph Institute
- Conservative Political Action Coalition & Faith and Freedom Coalition
- Right on Crime & Due Process Institute
- Access to Doorways
- Amend at the University of California, San Francisco
- American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section Sentencing Committee
- Amnesty International USA
- Autism Innocence Project
- Brennan Center for Justice
- Center for Justice Innovation
- Clemency Project Clinic at the University of Minnesota Law School
- D.C. Friends of Psychedelic Science
- Doctors for Drug Policy Reform
- Doorway Therapeutic Services
- Etheridge Foundation
- F.R.E.E. Gaia
- FAMM
- FWD.us
- Federal Inmates Requesting Sanctioned Treatment Network
- Hinda Institute
- Justice Action Network
- Last Prisoner Project
- Law Enforcement Action Partnership
- Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
- Medical Justice Alliance
- Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
- Muslim Legal Fund of America
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- National Disability Rights Network
- National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
- Plea Bargaining Institute
- Prison Fellowship
- Prison Health Justice Initiative
- Public Citizen
- RAND Justice Policy Program
- Recidiviz
- Rio Grande Valley Families and Friends of Murdered Children
- Team FED CHICKS
- The Hood Exchange
- The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
- The Sentencing Project
- Tzedek Association
- Vera Institute of Justice
- Vicente, LLP
- Zendo Project
- Eyal Aharoni, Heather Kleider-Offut & District Court Judge Morris Hoffman (Retired), Professors/Researchers
- Eleni Bakst & Tiffany Lieu, Professors/Researchers
- Douglas Berman, Lynn Branham, Deborah Denno, et al., Professors/Researchers
- Douglas Berman, Jeremy Haile & Erica Zunkel, Professors/Researchers
- John Carl & Mary Looman, Professors/Researchers
- David Chen, Daniel Harawa, Randy Hertz, et al., Professors/Researchers
- Claude Heffron & Katie Kronick, Professors/Researchers
- Magistrate Judge Andrew Wistrich (Retired) & Jeffrey Rachlinski, Professors/Researchers
- Jonathan Wroblewski, Douglas Berman & Steven Chanenson, Professors/Researchers
- Abiodun Adeneye, Attorney at Law
- Bekky Baker, Social Worker
- Jeffrey Bellin, Professor/Researcher
- Liat Ben-Moshe, Professor/Researcher
- Carlos Berdejo, Professor/Researcher
- Colleen Berryessa, Professor/Researcher
- Simone Bertoli, Professor/Researcher
- Vincent Chiao, Professor/Researcher
- Erin Collins, Professor/Researcher
- Adam Davidson, Professor/Researcher
- Scott Duxbury, Professor/Researcher
- Eric Fish, Professor/Researcher
- Ari Gatsios, Probation Officer
- Biagio Giaimo, Probation Officer
- Miriam Gohara, Professor/Researchers
- Irene Joe, Professor/Researcher
- Brian Johnson, Professor/Researcher
- Mugambi Jouet, Professor/Researcher
- Doyun Koo, Professor/Researcher
- Doran Larson, Professor/Researcher
- Richard Levitt, Attorney at Law
- Jolie Masterson, Attorney at Law
- April McCommon, Senior Probation Officer
- Daniel Mears, Professor/Researcher
- Maranna Meehan, Attorney at Law
- Jeffrey Nowacki, Professor/Researcher
- Marisa Omori, Professor/Researcher
- Anne Parsons, Professor/Researcher
- Sonya Pfeiffer, Attorney at Law
- Miloslava Plachkinova, Professor/Researcher
- Benito Rodriguez-Masso, Attorney at Law
- Dan Simon, Professor/Researcher
- Christopher Slobogin, Professor/Researcher
- Cassia Spohn, Professor/Researcher
- Juliet Stumpf, Professor/Researcher
- Alexander Testa, Professor/Researcher
- Clark Thompson, Probation Officer
- Kevin Vayko, Professor/Researcher
- Fernando Zambrana-Aviles, Attorney at Law
- Erica Zunkel, Professor/Researcher
- Matthew Cook
- Kathleen Hambrick
- Maren McKee
- Randall Morris
- Ryan Pantle
- Michael Pulliam
- Jeffrey Stone
- Lorenzo Suttles
No. 2 – Policymaking Recommendations
- U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock (D), Georgia
- Committee on Criminal Law of the Judicial Conference of the United States
- Circuit Judge Rachel Bloomekatz
- Circuit Judge Ralph R. Erickson
- Circuit Judge Stephen Higginson
- Circuit Judge Paul V. Niemeyer
- Circuit Judge Jane B. Stranch
- Chief District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan
- Chief District Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner
- Chief District Judge Sharon L. Gleason
- Chief District Judge John J. McConnell, Jr.
- Chief District Judge Kimberly Mueller
- Chief District Judge Stephanie Rose
- Chief District Judge Charles Williams
- Senior District Judge David C. Bramlette
- Senior District Judge David Cercone
- Senior District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr.
- Senior District Judge Nora Barry Fischer
- Senior District Judge Frank Geraci
- Senior District Judge James Graham
- Senior District Judge Robert L. Hinkle
- Senior District Judge Beryl Howell
- Senior District Judge John L. Kane
- Senior District Judge Joan Lefkow
- Senior District Judge Lawrence Piersol
- Senior District Judge Jed Rakoff
- Senior District Judge Keith Starrett
- Senior District Judge Stefan Underhill
- Senior District Judge B. Lynn Winmill
- District Judge Lynn Adelman
- District Judge Sharion Aycock
- District Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo
- District Judge Stephen R. Bough (June 7, 2024)
- District Judge Stephen R. Bough (June 13, 2024)
- District Judge Terrence William Boyle
- District Judge Jeffrey Brown
- District Judge J. Philip Calabrese
- District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman
- District Judge Jackie Corley
- District Judge Charles Fleming
- District Judge Iain Johnston
- District Judge Clay D. Land
- District Judge Jill Otake
- District Judge William Ray
- District Judge Christina Reiss
- District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg
- District Judge Karen Gren Scholer
- District Judge Leo T. Sorokin
- District Judge Trina Thompson
- District Judge Jennifer Thurston
- District Judge Nancy Torresen
- District Judge Karen Williams
- District Judge Jennifer Wilson
- District Judge Otis D. Wright, II
- District Judge Jay Zainey
- Superior Court Judge James P. Gray (Retired)
- U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Federal Public and Community Defenders Committee
- Practitioners Advisory Group
- Probation Officers Advisory Group
- Tribal Issues Advisory Group
- Victims Advisory Group
- ADM Capital Foundation, Adventure Travel Trade Association, et al.
- Center for Justice and Human Dignity & Aleph Institute
- Federal Criminal Defense Clinic & Defender Aid Clinic
- Right on Crime & Due Process Institute
- U.S. Pretrial Services for the Eastern District of New York & the District of New Jersey
- Access to Doorways
- Amend at the University of California, San Francisco
- American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section Sentencing Committee
- American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
- Amnesty International USA
- Autism Innocence Project
- Brennan Center for Justice
- Center for Justice Innovation
- Citizens Against Government Entrapment
- Council on Criminal Justice
- Decriminalize Developmental Disabilities
- D.C. Friends of Psychedelic Science
- Doctors for Drug Policy Reform
- Doorway Therapeutic Services
- Drug Policy Alliance
- Empowerment, Advocacy & Sexuality Education
- Etheridge Foundation
- F.R.E.E. Gaia
- FAMM
- FWD.us
- Federal Inmates Requesting Sanctioned Treatment Network
- Federal Prison Education and Reform Alliance
- Hinda Institute
- Illinois Alliance for Reentry and Justice
- International Fund for Animal Welfare
- Justice Action Network
- Justice that Restores
- Last Prisoner Project
- Law Enforcement Action Partnership
- Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
- Medical Justice Alliance
- More Than Our Crimes
- Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
- Muslim Legal Fund of America
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
- National Disability Rights Network
- National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
- Plea Bargaining Institute
- Prison Fellowship
- Public Citizen
- Rio Grande Valley Families and Friends of Murdered Children
- Sacred Plant Alliance, Inc.
- Team FED CHICKS
- The Hood Exchange
- The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
- The Sentencing Project
- Tzedek Association
- Vera Institute of Justice
- Vicente, LLP
- Zendo Project
- Former Federal Judges & U.S. Department of Justice Officials (Loss)
- Former Federal Judges & U.S. Department of Justice Officials (Probation)
- Eyal Aharoni, Heather Kleider-Offut & District Court Judge Morris Hoffman (Retired), Professors/Researchers
- Dan Berger & Keramet Reiter, Professors/Researchers
- Douglas Berman, Lynn Branham, Deborah Denno, et al., Professors/Researchers
- Douglas Berman, Jeremy Haile & Erica Zunkel, Professors/Researchers
- David Chen, Daniel Harawa, Randy Hertz, et al., Professors/Researchers
- Claude Heffron & Katie Kronick, Professors/Researchers
- Jacob Schuman, Eric Fish, David Porter, et al., Professors/Researchers
- Magistrate Judge Andrew Wistrich (Retired) & Jeffrey Rachlinski, Professors/Researchers
- Jonathan Wroblewski, Douglas Berman & Steven Chanenson, Professors/Researchers
- Bekky Baker, Social Worker
- Jeffrey Bellin, Professor/Researcher
- Liat Ben-Moshe, Professor/Researcher
- Edward Bernstein, Professor/Researcher
- Simone Bertoli, Professor/Researcher
- Kent Borges, Attorney at Law (Retired)
- James Brennan, Attorney at Law
- Kyle Brett, Probation Officer
- Vincent Chiao, Professor/Researcher
- Peter Cohen, Attorney at Law
- Erin Collins, Professor/Researcher
- Genaro Cortez, Attorney at Law
- Elliott Currie, Professor/Researcher
- Adam Davidson, Professor/Researcher
- Kevin Durkin, Attorney at Law
- Scott Duxbury, Professor/Researcher
- Jelani Exum, Professor/Researcher
- Ryan Farrell, Attorney at Law
- Eric Fish, Professor/Researcher
- Jane Francis, Attorney at Law
- Michelle Garcia, Psychologist
- Ari Gatsios, Probation Officer
- Biagio Giaimo, Probation Officer
- Steven Guttman, Probation Officer
- Brett Handmaker, Probation Officer
- Randal Harford, Probation Officer
- Laura Harris, Probation Officer
- Leah Heino, Senior Probation Officer
- Jeremy Ibrahim, Attorney at Law
- Christopher Jennings, Professor/Researcher
- Irene Joe, Professor/Researcher
- Mugambi Jouet, Professor/Researcher
- Aliza Kaplan, Professor/Researcher
- Samantha Klunk, Professor/Researcher
- Doyun Koo, Professor/Researcher
- Doran Larson, Professor/Researcher
- Richard Levitt, Attorney at Law
- Rachel Li Wai Suen, Attorney at Law
- Jolie Masterson, Attorney at Law
- April McCommon, Senior Probation Officer
- Maranna Meehan, Attorney at Law
- Marjorie Meyers, Attorney at Law
- Laurel Milam, Attorney at Law
- Kristie Milby, Probation Officer
- Nick Mirr, Attorney at Law
- Marti Morgan, Attorney at Law
- Jaime Muse, Probation Officer
- Meghan Nelson, Probation Officer
- Michael O'Hear, Professor/Researcher
- Marisa Omori, Professor/Researcher
- Jessica Oppenheim, Attorney at Law
- Mark Osler, Professor/Researcher
- Anne Parsons, Professor/Researcher
- Fritzroy Petty, Probation Officer
- Sonya Pfeiffer, Attorney at Law
- David Pozen, Professor/Researcher
- John Pryor, Probation Officer
- Alexis Quintero-Brode, Forensic Social Worker
- Christopher Seeds, Professor/Researcher
- Danielle Sered, Author
- Vivian Shevitz, Attorney at Law
- Dan Simon, Professor/Researcher
- Christopher Slobogin, Professor/Researcher
- Mark Smith, Religious Leader
- Laurie Sperry, Autism Forensics Expert
- Don Stanton, Religious Leader
- G. Tommy Starkweather, Jr., Attorney at Law
- Juliet Stumpf, Professor/Researcher
- Razmi Tahirkheli, Attorney at Law
- Clark Thompson, Probation Officer
- Katharine Tinto, Professor/Researcher
- Michael Tonry, Professor/Researcher
- Kevin Vayko, Professor/Researcher
- Carlos Vazquez, Attorney at Law
- Melissa Weinberger, Attorney at Law
- Robert Welsh, Attorney at Law
- Emerson Wheat, Attorney at Law
- Clayton Whittaker, Attorney at Law
- Anna Williams, Attorney at Law
- Cordell Wilson, Probation Officer
- Fernando Zambrana-Aviles, Attorney at Law
- Erica Zunkel, Professor/Researcher
- Gregory Berry
- Janice Bittner
- Tori Carter
- Edward Christy
- Harry Cole
- Matthew Cook
- Ronald Davidovic
- Robert Decker
- Yesenia De La Cerda
- Christina DeMarco
- Joshua Friedbauer
- Jonathan Garrison
- George Gibbs, III
- Bryan Hall
- Kathleen Hambrick
- Dan Holbert
- Theodis Johnson
- Dawn Ledoux
- Dante Lewis
- Sarah McCroskey
- Maren McKee
- Sherri Moreno
- Randall Morris
- Ryan Pantle
- Barbara Rojas
- Lauren Sandoval
- Carmine Sarnelli
- Connor Sheehan
- Oronde Shelton
- Ki Souron
- Jeffrey Stone
- Lorenzo Suttles
- Jason Terrell
No. 3 – Simplification
- Committee on Criminal Law of the Judicial Conference of the United States
- Senior Circuit Judge Jon O. Newman
- Circuit Judge Ralph R. Erickson
- Senior District Judge Michael Baylson
- U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division
- Federal Public and Community Defenders Committee
- Practitioners Advisory Group
- Tribal Issues Advisory Group
- Victims Advisory Group
- Center for Justice and Human Dignity & Aleph Institute
- Autism Innocence Project
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- RAND Justice Policy Program
- Jonathan Wroblewski, Douglas Berman & Steven Chanenson, Professors/Researchers
- Jelani Exum, Professor/Researcher
- Ari Gatsios, Probation Officer
- Leah Heino, Senior Probation Officer
- Kenneth Jeffers, Probation Officer
- Warren Little, Chief Probation Officer
- Maranna Meehan, Attorney at Law
- Mark Osler, Professor/Researcher
No. 4 – Career Offender
- Committee on Criminal Law of the Judicial Conference of the United States
- Circuit Judge Kent A. Jordan
- Circuit Judge Tim Tymkovich
- Chief District Judge Mitchell Goldberg
- District Judge Sherri A. Lydon
- U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division
- Federal Public and Community Defenders Committee
- Federal Public and Community Defenders for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Practitioners Advisory Group
- Probation Officers Advisory Group
- Victims Advisory Group
- Illinois Alliance for Reentry and Justice
- Muslim Legal Fund of America
- James Brennan, Attorney at Law
- Vincent Chiao, Professor/Researcher
- Ari Gatsios, Probation Officer
- Kyla Hamilton, Probation Officer
- Kenneth Jeffers, Probation Officer
- Warren Little, Chief Probation Officer
- Carolyn Patten, Probation Officer
- Josh Roth, Probation Officer
- G. Tommy Starkweather, Jr., Attorney at Law
- Oronde Shelton
- Linda Vaughn
- Timothy Walker
No. 5 – Legislation
- Committee on Criminal Law of the Judicial Conference of the United States
- Circuit Judge Ralph R. Erickson
- U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division
- Federal Public and Community Defenders for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Tribal Issues Advisory Group
- Victims Advisory Group
- Right on Crime & Due Process Institute
- Amend at the University of California, San Francisco
- Autism Innocence Project
- Decriminalize Developmental Disabilities
- FAMM
- Federal Prison Education and Reform Alliance
- Hinda Institute
- Illinois Alliance for Reentry and Justice
- Justice that Restores
- Muslim Legal Fund of America
- Rio Grande Valley Families and Friends of Murdered Children
- Sacred Plant Alliance, Inc.
- Team FED CHICKS
- Tzedek Association
- Former Federal Judges & U.S. Department of Justice Officials (Probation)
- Eyal Aharoni, Heather Kleider-Offut & District Court Judge Morris Hoffman (Retired), Professors/
- Researchers
- Eleni Bakst & Tiffany Lieu, Professors/Researchers
- Jonathan Wroblewski, Douglas Berman & Steven Chanenson, Professors/Researchers
- Abiodun Adeneye, Attorney at Law
- Edward Bernstein, Professor/Researcher
- Kent Borges, Attorney at Law (Retired)
- James Brennan, Attorney at Law
- Vincent Chiao, Professor/Researcher
- Adam Davidson, Professor/Researcher
- Miriam Gohara, Professor/Researcher
- Mugambi Jouet, Professor/Researcher
- Aliza Kaplan, Professor/Researcher
- Samantha Klunk, Professor/Researcher
- Doran Larson, Professor/Researcher
- Sonya Pfeiffer, Attorney at Law
- Christopher Seeds, Professor/Researcher
- Danielle Sered, Author
- Mark Smith, Religious Leader
- Laurie Sperry, Autism Forensics Expert
- Don Stanton, Religious Leader
- G. Tommy Starkweather, Jr., Attorney at Law
- Juliet Stumpf, Professor/Researcher
- Kevin Vayko, Professor/Researcher
- Clayton Whittaker, Attorney at Law
- Janice Bittner
- Jamesha Bland
- Yesenia De La Cerda
- Christina DeMarco
- Kathleen Hambrick
- Dawn Ledoux
- Dante Lewis
- Sarah McCroskey
- Maren McKee
- Sherri Moreno
- Randall Morris
- Ryan Pantle
- Michael Pulliam
- Ki Souron
- James Spina
- Lorenzo Suttles
- Gregory Truette
No. 6 – Circuit Conflicts
- Circuit Judge Paul V. Niemeyer
- District Judge Rodolfo A. Ruiz, II
- U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division
- Practitioners Advisory Group
- Probation Officers Advisory Group
- Victims Advisory Group
- Right on Crime & Due Process Institute
- Muslim Legal Fund of America
- Team FED CHICKS
- Erica Zunkel, Professor/Researcher
No. 7 – Miscellaneous Issues
- U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock (D), Georgia
- Committee on Criminal Law of the Judicial Conference of the United States
- Circuit Judge Ralph R. Erickson
- Circuit Judge Jane B. Stranch
- District Judge Leo T. Sorokin
- District Judge Nancy Torresen
- Federal Public and Community Defenders Committee
- Federal Public and Community Defenders for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Practitioners Advisory Group
- Tribal Issues Advisory Group
- Victims Advisory Group
- Center for Justice and Human Dignity & Aleph Institute
- Conservative Political Action Coalition & Faith and Freedom Coalition
- Autism Innocence Project
- Center for Justice Innovation
- Decriminalize Developmental Disabilities
- FAMM
- Federal Prison Education and Reform Alliance
- Illinois Alliance for Reentry and Justice
- International Fund for Animal Welfare
- Medical Justice Alliance
- Muslim Legal Fund of America
- National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
- National Disability Rights Network
- Plea Bargaining Institute
- Prison Health Justice Initiative
- Team FED CHICKS
- The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
- Tzedek Association
- John Carl & Mary Looman, Professors/Researchers
- David Chen, Daniel Harawa, Randy Hertz, et al., Professors/Researchers
- Claude Heffron & Katie Kronick, Professors/Researchers
- Adam Davidson, Professor/Researcher
- Michelle Garcia, Psychologist
- Ruben Garcia, Attorney at Law
- Mugambi Jouet, Professor/Researcher
- Richard Levitt, Attorney at Law
- Maranna Meehan, Attorney at Law
- Meghan Nelson, Probation Officer
- Jessica Oppenheim, Attorney at Law
- Danielle Sered, Author
- Kevin Vayko, Professor/Researcher
- Yesenia De La Cerda
- Dustin Graham
- Dawn Ledoux
- Michael Pulliam
- Lorenzo Suttles