The Missouri House gave final approval Thursday to a bill that would change the classifications of and punishments for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bill would raise mandatory minimum from 3 years to 20 years for repeat felony offenders ...

In his first year in office, President Joe Biden did not push for legislation that would repeal federal mandatory minimum sentences. As a candidate, Biden promised major changes to the American ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...