Rather Than Running for President, Maybe Joe Biden Should Just Launch an Apology Tour
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the former vice president acknowledges regrets about his role in the drug war and mass incarcerations.
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the former vice president acknowledges regrets about his role in the drug war and mass incarcerations.
Charles may be the first person to benefit from the sentencing reductions in the FIRST STEP Act.
Most are serving mandatory minimums, usually for crimes that did not involve assault or sexual abuse.
2018 was a mixed bag, but that means there was still a lot of good news.
After weeks of work from advocates and a bipartisan group of lawmakers, the Senate voted to pass the FIRST STEP Act.
The last-minute changes show how hard it is to make the criminal justice system more proportionate and discriminating.
Cohen blames Trump for sending him down a "path of darkness"
Trump's nominee for attorney general is apt to encourage his worst instincts on drug policy.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied a recommendation to relieve him of execution.
Some people don't belong behind bars. This celebrity-launched criminal justice reform group wants to free them.
Roughly 800 federal inmates are sentenced to life under an obscure sentencing enhancement that lawmakers in Congress might soon vote to reduce.
The Texas senator is now allied with longtime opponents of reform in resisting the FIRST STEP Act.
The modest changes in the FIRST STEP Act are no threat to public safety.
Assessing the import of presidential tantrums, media hyperbole, military complaints, and the near-arrival of federal sentencing reform
My case involving Weldon Angelos illustrates the problem with "stacking" federal mandatory minimum gun charges from a single episode. The statute will apparently soon be amended to become a true recidivism statute.
When Tessah Mitchell attempted to register her children for day care, a crime from 18 years ago caught up with her.
Prosecutor groups and criminal justice reform advocates are putting out dueling polls on a major bill in Congress.
Former Biscayne Park Officers Charlie Dayoub and Raul Fernandez are going to prison after pinning burglaries on innocent black men.
The president's comments could improve the prospects for federal penal reform.
The Texas senator's authoritarian attacks on Beto O'Rourke short-circuit rational discussion of police shootings, drug policy, and sentencing reform.
Hundreds may see their sentences overturned or shortened.
He has prior felony convictions, but 20 years still seems harsh.
The woman who leaked a report showing Russian attempts to infiltrate voting systems gets the longest sentence ever imposed for her offense.
The president and Senate Republicans might be coming to an agreement that includes some sentencing reforms, too.
Since Ohio's age of consent is 16, it was legal for Edward Marrero to have sex but not to sext.
Gaps in Connecticut's self-defense law lead to 18-month sentence.
Would she have gotten a better deal if she hadn't been denied bail?
A new report shows that the recent trend of reducing prison populations is heavily an urban phenomenon.
Commutations for people serving absurdly long sentences would be a great new way to torture the attorney general.
Leave it to Kim Kardashian West to secure freedom for a prisoner of the drug war (seriously, she's good at it).
California voters just encouraged judges to show no mercy.
Now writers, activists, and thousands of readers are calling on Trump to commute Matthew Charles' sentence.
Federal prosecutors didn't need more leverage against drug offenders, but they're going to get it anyway.
An obsession with election fraud leads to cruel punishments.
Scaling back debtor's prisons in a state with one of the country's highest incarceration rates
Government misconduct a big driver of exonerations last year.
Somebody tell the president.
Bill Otis has made a career out of opposing any reductions to mandatory minimum sentences.
"If General Sessions wanted to be involved in marking up this legislation, maybe he should have quit his job and run for the Republican Senate seat in Alabama."
The Justice Department has finally shared data from the "compassionate release" program, and the numbers aren't pretty.
Paternalistic nudging in action