President Joe Biden announced Friday he is commuting 2,500 criminal sentences for nonviolent drug offenses that he described as "disproportionately long" compared ... according to the U.S ...

The two stalled efforts in the Golden State are indicative of a tension visible across the country, as reform efforts aimed at paring back long sentences ... about the U.S. criminal justice ...

“WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again ...

A recent column by Todd Welch mentions a trope that ignores one basic fact: there is no deterrent effect of long-term sentences. The reason for this is that when committing a crime, the criminal ...

“With this action, I have now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in U.S. [sic] history ... of Americans serving long-term or even life sentences for cannabis ...

A former police chief in Arkansas who is serving decades-long sentences for murder and rape escaped from prison Sunday. Grant Hardin, the former police chief of the tiny town of Gateway near the ...