Police are preparing for a surge in crime that could see hundreds of thousands more offences committed in just one year, if Government prison sentence reforms go ahead. Plans proposed under the ...

Liberals have often cited the need for criminal justice reform. However, it is conservatives that appear to making more headway.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in decisions on Rutherford v. United States and Fernandez v. United States, restricted the ...

The Communities Not Cages campaign is advocating for the passage of three sentencing reform bills in the 2026 legislative session: the Second Look Act, the Earned Time Act and the Marvin Mayfield Act.

The First Step Act represented one of the most significant federal prison reform efforts in decades. Passed with bipartisan support in 2018, the law was intended to reduce recidivism, expand ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that judges cannot order the early release of prisoners on the grounds that they would have received shorter sentences today following the enactment of a ​2018 ...

Two years ago, Ohio legislators and state officials thought they had finally figured out how to reverse the tide of costly incarcerations in the overcrowded state prisons with the passage of the ...

Twelve thousand inmates are eligible for release from federal prisons due to reforms of sentencing laws for crack cocaine. Cocaine is illegal in all its forms but, in federal sentencing law, there's a ...

Last week, the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code and California Policy Lab published a report looking at the recidivism rates of people resentenced under some of the state’s major criminal ...