A GOP congressman running for governor in Florida who has opposed marijuana legalization in the state and sponsored federal ...

The Conservatives say more than 2,000 prisoners serving sentences for rape, stalking and grooming will have their jail time cut because of the government's new sentencing plan. The government's ...

Yesterday the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted to apply retroactively sentencing reform for crack-cocaine convictions that Congress passed last year, giving more than 12,000 inmates — 85 percent of ...

A group of Republicans in Albany this week filed a formal ethics complaint against New York’s top judge, claiming he went too ...

(Reuters) -The federal judge in Virginia assigned to hear former FBI Director James Comey's criminal case is an ex-public defender who advocated for sentencing reform and was appointed to the bench by ...

LWV-Mobile caps off its 2015-16 season with Federal Defender Carlos Williams, who will draw upon four decades of fighting in the courtroom for poor and disadvantaged clients, as the League continues ...

While federal lawmakers were busy getting nothing done in Washington, D.C. last week, there was at least some harmony on the hill regarding the issue of sentencing reform. After several months of ...

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CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Hamilton County's police chiefs are criticizing the courts for not doing enough to prevent repeat offenders. They released a statement saying their work is being undermined by "lax ...