Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary, is carrying out a prison sentencing review - Ian Davidson/Alamy Live News Criminals could serve sentences at home under house arrest as part of government plans ...

Jail sentences for some serious crimes could be reduced under a government review aimed at tackling the prison overcrowding crisis. In an interview with The Telegraph, David Gauke, the former Tory ...

PROVIDENCE – State lawmakers are once again weighing a proposal that would allow people serving long sentences to ask a judge for a “second look” at their punishment after 10 years. Matching ...

OF INTERFERE WITH CUSTODY. ON MAY 9TH, ADAM MONTGOMERY APPEARED IN COURT FOR HIS SENTENCING AFTER DECIDING NOT TO BE IN COURT FOR HIS TRIAL. IN SENTENCING MONTGOMERY, JUDGE AMY MESSER TOLD HIM HE HAD ...

While one of us works with a religious organization and the other is a public defender, we have both become intimately familiar with the system of criminal punishment in Michigan. We each spend much ...

An MP has called for a review into the "unduly lenient" sentence given to a woman who killed two teenagers when she smashed into the back of a stationary car after sipping alcohol at the wheel and ...

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder sought support Wednesday for erasing the gap in prison sentences for crack and powder cocaine crimes, a disparity that hits black defendants the hardest. The ...