On Nov. 1, another promising reform takes effect, providing hope that Walker and hundreds of others serving unjust and outdated sentences might receive a second chance at life outside of prison walls.

Calling the penalty "unjust, cruel, and irrational," Cassell urged President Bush to "commute Mr. Angelos' sentence to something that is more in accord with just and rational punishment." ...

Mandatory minimum laws empower prosecutors to ratchet up drug sentences. Congress needs to step in and return the power to determine sentences to judges. It is time to restore some fairness and ...

In 2002, Cindy Shank received an undeserved sentence of 15 years behind bars. The new HBO doc ‘The Sentence,’ premiering Oct. 15, is a touching record of all that she missed.

The judge regretted it from the beginning. The 27-year prison sentence he gave Byron Lamont McDade was too long, he said, for a low-level player in an expansive cocaine enterprise.

When he was 26, Douglas Ray Dunkins Jr. received a mandatory sentence of life without parole for participating in a Fort Worth, Texas, crack cocaine operation. If that business had involved cocaine… ...

Ex-wife, victim of convicted rapist says home-detention sentence was unjust. Despite threats to withhold her vote, Victoria Spartz votes to advance Trump’s tax bill to a final vote.

Prison time for a murder he didn't commit robbed 52-year-old Robert Dewey of priceless moments, like the birth of his grandchildren and the burial of his only son.