The justice secretary has defended her decision to grant herself a veto on sentencing policy changes - insisting she has no ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — Truth-in-Sentencing laws require people to serve a certain percentage of their sentence behind bars. In the past few years, Missouri has seen several bills ...

By contrast, Trump’s sentencing technically did not relate to the introduction of evidence at all, let alone evidence of defendant’s official acts, and the stay he sought thus could do nothing ...

The Michigan Supreme Court made an extraordinary change to the state’s sentencing law Thursday, striking down automatic, no-parole prison terms for 19-year-olds and 20-year-olds convicted of murder.

The changes will also make community sentences tougher, and introduce many of the measures recommended by the sentencing ...

A new law to reverse 'two tier' guidance on the sentencing of offenders from minorities will not be passed for weeks despite Keir Starmer vowing to 'fast-track' it.