A 2024 law gives people in prison time off their sentences for work and education. But an internal report shows the prison ...

In a sentencing memo that quotes Martin Luther King Jr., federal prosecutors argue that life in prison is only legal ...

Susan Crawford, a trial court judge running for Wisconsin Supreme Court, said she doesn't regret her sentencing decision in a 2020 case involving a repeat child sex offender.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The House of Delegates is the next stop for Lauren’s Law which would increase penalties in cases ...

The law allows female heads of households to serve their sentences outside of prison, in exchange for unpaid community ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that life sentences for child killers should only be imposed in exceptional circumstances and the ...

If Gov. Sarah Sanders signs into law HB 1489, Arkansas executions could begin again. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Jeff Wardlaw ...

Mike Pence's nonprofit conservative activist group, Americans Advancing Freedom, sent a memo to House Judiciary Republican ...

On Wednesday, the State House passed House Bill 1001, also called Lauria and Ashley's Law, that would add accessory to murder ...

The Alabama AG has staunchly opposed a new trial for a man who deserves a new trial, according to a chorus of respected ...

A former Crawford County deputy has appealed his prison sentence in a case where he was accused of hitting a man in the head ...

House Bill 1001, "Lauria and Ashley's Law," passed by the Oklahoma House, increases minimum prison time for murder ...