Lawmakers and correctional leaders across the US are advancing reforms to reduce recidivism and improve prison conditions, with efforts including improving health and staff resources, increasing ...

Despite the Trump administration's shift towards a stricter approach to criminal justice, states have continued to pass bipartisan reforms, indicating that criminal justice reform in the US has become ...

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 ...

Chief Judge Rowan Wilson drew more than a second look for comments made during the Second Look Act Symposium last month.

Yesterday the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted to apply retroactively sentencing reform for crack-cocaine convictions that Congress passed last year, giving more than 12,000 inmates — 85 percent of ...

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 ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WNYT) – The family of a man beaten to death at Marcy Correctional Facility is calling for further prison returns. Robert Brooks was killed in December 2024, which set off a wave of ...

CONCORD, N.H. -- New Hampshire prison inmates would be paroled at least nine months before their maximum sentences end so they can be supervised as they transition back into their communities, under ...

Offenders will be “laughing all the way to their next crime”, as a result of the Government’s sentencing reforms, the Commons has heard. Convicts who demonstrate good behaviour could be released early ...

LWV-Mobile caps off its 2015-16 season with Federal Defender Carlos Williams, who will draw upon four decades of fighting in the courtroom for poor and disadvantaged clients, as the League continues ...