Does Trump's Super Bowl Ad Signal More Progress on Sentencing Reform?
While the president seems sincerely concerned about "very unfair" drug penalties, it's not clear whether he thinks his work in that area is done.
While the president seems sincerely concerned about "very unfair" drug penalties, it's not clear whether he thinks his work in that area is done.
How can prosecuting a black woman for slapping Jews in 2020 be authorized by the constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in 1865?
A new Drug Policy Alliance report highlights this puzzling and dangerous inconsistency.
The court says 12 years was "obviously harsh," but hey, at least it wasn't 15.
The judge said six months in jail for the cop's perjury would be "unduly harsh."
Justice Maureen O'Connor has intervened repeatedly in the legislative process.
Hate crime enhancements meet three-strikes laws, and the consequences are terrible.
A part of the law intended to hold suspected terrorists for deportation is being twisted to justify indefinite detention.
Sessions has spent his career fighting to maintain draconian drug sentences.
Oklahoma frees 527 low-level offenders—and saves nearly $12 million.
Illinois abolished the death penalty in 2011.
The case is yet another example of our excessively penal criminal justice system.
America's justice system should leave more room for mercy.
We probably won’t see a follow up to the FIRST STEP Act. But it’s still been a boon to federal prisoners.
The man will finally be released from prison.
Mill's legal problems are now over, but he remains involved in efforts to push for important probation reforms.
Reason previously shared the story of Ricky Kidd's wrongful conviction in April.
In a speech to police, Barr called for citizens to shut up and do what officers tell them to.
Obama denied him clemency. Will Trump set him free?
While the president's mercy might be self-serving, it's not necessarily wrong.
But Nancy Segula will still need to rein in her "compassion for cats."
The felony murder rule allows police to charge someone with a killing if they were an accomplice in a related crime.
"I'm an animal lover, and I feel guilty that they're wandering around out there and they have nothing to eat."
The climate of opinion has changed so dramatically that Democrats are politically obliged to support reform.
We need to leave ourselves room for making good when we inevitably convict the wrong people.
After two decades of mercy, the Justice Department announces five men on federal death row will face lethal injections this winter.
Judges would be permitted to rethink sentences after 10 years have been served, particularly for inmates over the age of 50.
Many benefit from an increase in "good time" credits and from retroactive reductions in crack cocaine mandatory minimum sentences.
James Alex Fields Jr., who killed Heather Heyer in the fatal Charlottesville car attack, is sentenced to life plus 419 years.
Another day, another conflict between the Supreme Court’s Republican appointees in a criminal justice case.
Booker would move the process away from prosecutors and into the White House.
Frederick Turner was sentenced to a mandatory 40 years on nonviolent drug and firearm charges. He ended up in a high-security federal prison, and now he's dead.
It's not illegal for inmates to have marijuana, but it's still a felony if they try to smoke it.
On average, crack offenders who have benefited from the FIRST STEP Act will serve 14 years instead of 20.
The bill applies to all federal marijuana offenders, and it creates a process for sealing records of other nonviolent offenses.
Plus: marijuana in the 2020 election, Harris follows up on voting behind bars, another Palm Beach massage arrest, and more...
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin gives advice for changing hearts on criminal justice reform.
Annual exoneration report shows growth in amount of time served and increasing levels of official misconduct.
Double jeopardy or a way of circumventing a potential Trump pardon? Or both?
The former Trump campaign chairman faces four years in prison, and possibly 10 more, for lying to lenders and the U.S. government.
Dyron Rashad Primus is serving 15 years for synthetic marijuana charges. That's absurd.
Pop-up art exhibition in New York focuses attention on the need for criminal justice reform.
Reducing the thresholds for mandatory minimums in fentanyl cases will produce more injustices like the ones the president highlighted last night.
The senator and presidential hopeful went to bat for dirty prosecutors, opposed marijuana legalization, and championed policies that endanger sex workers.