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 ...

Should anyone ‘age out’ of prison? Are mandatory sentences unfair? Legislative commission makes recommendations in new report ...

A draft of new sentencing guidelines unveiled on Monday calls for tougher penalties for severe and repeated cases of animal cruelty, a move widely seen as a push to end a long era of leniency in the ...

The guidelines, drafted at a meeting of the Supreme Court’s sentencing commission on Friday, are the top court’s first formal framework for animal abuse crimes, a court spokesperson told local ...