Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a surprise collapse and a political setback for Gov. Kelly Ayotte, House and Senate negotiators failed to reach agreement on ...

Opponents of the bill argue mandatory minimums are ineffective, cruel, and often turn street-level addicts into police ...

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 ...

In 1994, and with an incredible 72 percent in favor, Californians passed Proposition 184. This proposition strengthened a habitual offenders law that provides higher sentences for those with two ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Republicans on a House panel advanced a bill Thursday that would mandate a 20-year prison sentence for people convicted of multiple specific crimes. Iowa’s current habitual offender law has stackable ...

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 ...