A new proposal before the Virginia General Assembly would eliminate mandatory minimum prison terms for several serious sex offenses, including ...
Mandatory minimum sentences in the United States have failed to reduce crime and have instead driven mass incarceration, ...
A Mt. Pleasant man was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in a state prison Thursday in connection with repeated sexual abuse of a ...
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Ohio lawmakers are intensifying efforts to combat the spread of fentanyl by proposing stricter penalties for drug dealers. State Rep. Phil Plummer, a former Montgomery County ...
(The Root) — It may have been overshadowed by other news from the Supreme Court, but on Monday the nine justices also handed down a major juvenile-justice ruling. The court ruled 5-4 that mandatory ...
A U.S. District Court Judge said Brandon Boogren was not the typical child pornography production case before sentencing him ...
A Douglas County sentencing in a deadly DUI crash is sparking renewed calls to toughen Colorado’s laws — including a push for a mandatory 10-year prison sentence for anyone convicted of vehicular ...