Last Wednesday in Setser v. United States, the Court held that federal district judges have authority to direct that a criminal sentence be served consecutively or concurrently to a state sentence, ...

Florida 19th Judicial Circuit judge Sherwood "Chip" Bauer gave a black man 26 years in prison and a white man two years' time served, for the same crime, in the same circumstances. The two men pleaded ...

No juvenile who commits murder or another serious crime can be sentenced to life without parole unless it is clear that the youth is doomed to a life of crime — that is, is so “corrupt” as to lack any ...

Federal judges in New York City gave dozens of lighter prison sentences during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, often citing brutal conditions in Manhattan and Brooklyn jails as the reason, an ...

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on Friday advised Colette Peters, director of the Oregon Department of Corrections, to perform a case-by-case analysis of adults in custody who are vulnerable to COVID-19 and ...