On Nov. 1, another promising reform takes effect, providing hope that Walker and hundreds of others serving unjust and outdated sentences might receive a second chance at life outside of prison walls.

The Louisiana Supreme Court threw out a law backed by the state’s district attorneys aimed at fixing unnecessarily long sentences. According to Nola.com, the vote was 5-4 in favor of overturning ...

Mandatory minimum sentences, widely associated with the Rockefeller Drug Laws in New York, helped launch the mass incarceration era of the 1970s and 80s. While specific Rockefeller laws have been ...

On July 10, the Abu Dhabi Federal Appeals Court meted out sentences ranging from between 15 years to life in prison in the UAE’s second largest unfair mass trial of at least 84 human rights ...

Elizabeth Holmes is asking a judge to reverse her 'unjust' conviction or reduce her 11-year sentence one week before she's set to report to prison Story by [email protected] (Charles R. Davis ...

Her lawyers have been pushing for a lesser sentence amid increasing ... Civil rights attorney and former state lawmaker Bakari Sellers will tell the judge on Sept. 12 that the punishment is unjust.

Elizabeth Holmes is asking a judge to reverse her 'unjust' conviction or reduce her 11-year sentence one week before she's set to report to prison ...

Carly Gregg, convicted of murdering her mother at age 14, has new legal counsel appealing her life sentence. The new attorney, James Murphy, argues the trial was unjust and the swift legal process ...

“I am convinced that the court's sentence of incarceration is unjust and violates the cornerstone of our justice system—that similarly situated individuals receive proportionate sentences. I want to ...