First Step Act advanced prison reform, but hundreds are still serving unjust sentences New Sentencing Commission guidelines will give them a chance for compassionate release. But DOJ threatens to ...

The Louisiana Supreme Court overturned a measure aimed at correcting the state's "three strikes" law which results in harsh sentences.

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 r… ...

Mandatory minimum sentences require that those convicted of a crime to serve a predetermined amount of time in prison.

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 ...

In the filing, Holmes' attorneys ask the court to either "reverse the conviction" or reduce her 11-year prison sentence.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A pregnant Black activist serving four years in prison for her behavior at racial justice protests will have her sentence reconsidered as she struggles to reach her due date ...

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 ...

A former Fairfax County police officer, Wesley Shifflett, was sentenced to three years for killing a man who stole sunglasses. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin commuted the sentence, believing it to ...

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 ...