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 ...

The bill’s mandatory minimums would apply if a person is convicted of human or child trafficking in adult court, Amber Otis, senior staff attorney with the Wisconsin Legislative Council, wrote in a ...

DENVER (KDVR) — 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 ...

I sat down in front of the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) yesterday afternoon to testify about the harmful effects of mandatory minimum sentencing. In 1991, the USSC delivered a report to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The N.J. Supreme Court just clarified gun sentencing law. In back-to-back rulings, the New Jersey Supreme Court narrowed the scope ...

Cracking down on the street-level organizations, and stopping the collateral damage they inflict, is a laudable goal, an essential one. Doing so at the expense of fairness and equity is not, and ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Iowa has made national news recently, unfortunately not for any of the great things happening across our ...

A new bill proposed by Democrats in the Virginia state legislature is raising concerns regarding the removal of minimum prison sentences for various violent felony crimes. Within days of Democratic ...