The federal sentencing landscape in the United States could undergo a significant transformation with recent amendments to update the United ...

A Florida Keys judge threw a surprising lifeline to a mentally ill man facing life in prison for killing his younger brother ...

A divided federal appeals court ruled that a policy adopted in 2023 by the U.S. Sentencing Commission which allowed judges to ...

A law change to block potentially different sentencing approaches for offenders based on their race and religion has cleared ...

Changes are coming to federal sentencing guidelines unless Congress votes against them. The bipartisan United States ...

Gov. Jared Polis has threatened to veto a bill that would mandate Colorado’s municipal courts conform to state sentencing guidelines, the bill sponsors said. House Bill 1147 would limit city ...

A federal judge on Tuesday rejected requests for new trials for two men convicted on human smuggling charges in the deaths of four members of a family from India who froze to ...

“Steve Jabar and Debbie Bowers accomplished this feat in an active war zone,” said attorney ... fighting to clear his name. Federal sentencing guidelines called for a prison sentence of ...

Under tougher sentencing guidelines introduced on Aug 21, 2024, the money mule involved in his case, a 23-year-old man, was jailed for 19 months and two weeks and fined $5,200. He was one of 230 ...

The Sentencing Council has suspended plans for new guidelines which could have led to different sentences depending on someone’s age, sex and ethnicity. The Sentencing Council’s decision to suspend ...

London (AFP) – Britain's government on Tuesday introduced legislation to block new sentencing guidelines taking into account a defendant's ethnic or cultural background, on the grounds it would ...

Over the last few weeks, the government and the independent body in charge of sentencing have been locked in a row over new guidelines that say characteristics like ethnicity and gender should be ...