Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Helena Pallarés for Deseret Magazine Mandatory minimum sentences require judges to impose fixed prison terms for certain crimes ...

In their Sentencing Guidelines column, Covington & Burling's Alan Vinegrad and Jason Levine write: Mandatory minimum sentences have, for years, been the subject of complaints from the bench, the ...

Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Obama Administration is expanding their mandatory sentencing reforms to cases where charges have already been filed, during a Congressional Black Caucus ...

The Sentencing Project's article cites evidence that increasing prison sentences based on criminal history does not improve public safety and disproportionately harms people of color, and proposes ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. Sentencing Commission on Thursday voted unanimously to address concerns with mandatory minimum prison penalties. The commission action follows a Justice Department policy ...

While the Obama administration has spent the past several months rolling out piecemeal sentencing reforms for non-violent drug offenders, states have already taken a hatchet to mandatory minimum ...

The bill would reduce sentences for victims of domestic violence in cases where that experience was "a contributing factor" ...

A federal judge rejected a joint agreement for the minimum sentence for a former Omro alderman convicted of receiving child pornography.

A sweeping criminal justice proposal moving through Virginia’s Democratic-led legislature is sparking sharp debate over whether the state should loosen ...

It didn't get much media attention, but if you go to page 654 of the 655-page the National Defense Authorization Act of 2010, signed by President Barack Obama on Oct. 28, 2009, you will find Sec. 4713 ...

BISMARCK — The North Dakota House of Representatives voted Thursday, Jan. 30 to impose a minimum for the amount of time convicted human traffickers spend behind bars. Human trafficking is an umbrella ...

Mandatory minimum sentences require judges to impose fixed prison terms for certain crimes regardless of circumstances. They emerged in the 1980s along with the war on drugs, “tough on crime” politics ...