A new report recommends four reforms to make sentencing fairer and reduce racial disparities behind bars in New Jersey.
A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that the U.S. Sentencing Commission lacked authority to enact a policy last year that ...
Recently, the U.S. Sentencing Commission passed an amendment to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines that has the potential for reducing the prison terms for thousands of inmates. The U.S. Sentencing ...
Under the previous rule, a defendant who was convicted of one charge but acquitted of another could still face punishment for ...
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice-elect Sarah Stewart told lawmakers and state leaders Tuesday that courts can do more to ...
As Sady told me, “It could be that the Sentencing Commission finally pushes the BOP to get its house in order.” Community corrections has long been a problem for the BOP. Reentry centers ...
Stewart said Bennet Wright, the executive director of the Alabama Sentencing Commission, will help lead that area of the ...
Efforts to end minimum mandatory sentences for non-violent drug offenders in New Jersey are again being put on the table, three years after a similar proposal was conditionally vetoed by Gov. Phil ...
A New York Supreme Court justice will decide Tuesday if President-elect Donald Trump's sentencing will move forward later ...