Mandatory minimum sentences in the United States have failed to reduce crime and have instead driven mass incarceration, ...

As determinate sentencing and existing mandatory minimums have taken hold over the last generation,” says Georgetown Law ...

Weeks after Opposition Leader Peter Dutton announced his support for mandatory minimum jail terms for antisemitic offenses, the government has legislated such laws. Minister for Home Affairs Tony ...

President Joe Biden's administration took some steps to discourage mandatory minimum sentences. But in other cases, Biden opposed efforts to reduce them, and he did not support or introduce ...

OPPOSITION AT THE STATEHOUSE. NEW HAMPSHIRE’S OPIOID CRISIS NOW STRETCHES BACK ALMOST A FULL DECADE. A NEW GOVERNOR WILL INHERIT THE FIGHT IN JANUARY. KELLY AYOTTE DID A RIDE ALONG WITH AMR IN ...

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 ...

Beginning in October, repeat sexual offenders in Florida will serve a minimum of a decade in jail for their crimes. A new Florida law establishing a minimum sentence for people repeatedly convicted of ...

In a letter to lawmakers, the New Jersey Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission recommended four basic sentencing reforms, including an end to mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug ...

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 ...