The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to allow some 19,500 federal prison inmates, most of them black, to seek reductions in their crack cocaine sentences. The commission, which ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled against a Florida man who sought to have his sentence for a low-level drug crime reduced, holding that a bipartisan push in Congress in 2018 to ease such ...

I'm at the US Sentencing Commission's public hearing considering whether the recent changes to drug sentencing guidelines should be made retroactive. More to come, but the news so far is that the ...

The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to allow some 19,500 federal prison inmates, most of them black, to seek reductions in their crack cocaine sentences. The commission, which ...

The U.S. Sentencing Commission met June 1 to consider applying revised sentencing guidelines retroactively that would reduce the sentences of some of those convicted for violating federal laws against ...

The US Sentencing Commission passed a retroactive amendment to subtract two points from the sentencing guideline calculation for many with no past criminal history. Yesterday, the United States ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Buoyed by a Supreme Court ruling, some 19,500 federal inmates and their families, most of them black, are hoping the U.S. Sentencing Commission is ready to make its recent easing of ...

The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled in a high-profile murder case that the state Supreme Court's landmark 2017 decision raising the prosecutorial burden for seeking a life without parole ...

And the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments today in a case that could determine the fate of more than 2,000 convicted juvenile murderers. In 2012, the court struck down as unconstitutional state laws ...