The issue before the Supreme Court in Koons v. United States concerns the application of 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(2), which allows federal judges to modify a prison term for a “defendant who has been ...

A review of 2,102 state supreme court rulings on death penalty appeals from the 37 states that heard such cases over the past 15 years found a strong correlation between the results in those cases and ...

In a succinct six-page opinion, the Supreme Court ruled today in Holguin-Hernandez v. United States that a federal criminal defendant who “advocates for a shorter sentence than the one ultimately ...

Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters charged with storming the U.S. Capitol have faced the same choice in the three years since the attack: either admit their guilt and accept the consequences or take ...

Federal judges handed down dozens of lighter sentences due to brutal conditions in New York City’s federal jails during the coronavirus pandemic, new statistics obtained by the Daily News show. A ...

Joining us now is heather warranty and she is the executive director of the Center for Criminal Justice Reform at the University of Baltimore, how are you? I'm doing well, thanks, thank you for having ...

One of Colombia’s most notorious paramilitary warlords, “Jorge 40,” could be free from prison in the United States in just five years following the conclusion of a strange judicial episode that raises ...