Weeks after Opposition Leader Peter Dutton announced his support for mandatory minimum jail terms for antisemitic offenses, the government has legislated such laws. Minister for Home Affairs Tony ...

President Joe Biden's administration took some steps to discourage mandatory minimum sentences. But in other cases, Biden opposed efforts to reduce them, and he did not support or introduce ...

Whole life orders are given in cases where the crime was deemed so serious that the offender should never be released from ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A legislative committee advanced a bill that would establish a mandatory minimum sentence for people convicted of child torture, though future changes are expected after some ...

OPPOSITION AT THE STATEHOUSE. NEW HAMPSHIRE’S OPIOID CRISIS NOW STRETCHES BACK ALMOST A FULL DECADE. A NEW GOVERNOR WILL INHERIT THE FIGHT IN JANUARY. KELLY AYOTTE DID A RIDE ALONG WITH AMR IN ...

Beginning in October, repeat sexual offenders in Florida will serve a minimum of a decade in jail for their crimes. A new Florida law establishing a minimum sentence for people repeatedly convicted of ...

Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Obama Administration is expanding their mandatory sentencing reforms to cases where charges have already been filed, during a Congressional Black Caucus ...

In a letter to lawmakers, the New Jersey Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission recommended four basic sentencing reforms, including an end to mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug ...

Angelo Leo, convicted of manslaughter in the 2023 car wash killing, pleaded guilty to an enhancement that could send him to ...

While the Obama administration has spent the past several months rolling out piecemeal sentencing reforms for non-violent drug offenders, states have already taken a hatchet to mandatory minimum ...

Offenders convicted of the crime would never become eligible for parole, according to the plans announced by Zia Yusuf.