Victims could be given more powers to challenge “unduly lenient” sentences handed out to criminals under a major ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary, is carrying out a prison sentencing review - Ian Davidson/Alamy Live News Criminals could ...

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 ...

ONE of Ana Kriegel’s killers has had his sentence review halted. A jury unanimously found Boy B and his accomplice, known as Boy A, guilty of the barbaric murder of 14-year-old Ana at a ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court in mid-February granted a petition asking it to consider whether the mandatory sentence for murder in the second degree — life without parole — is unconstitutional under ...

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 ...

Ohio's criminal sentencing system allows trial court judges to give people convicted of multiple crimes sentences that run either concurrently or consecutively. This can swing prison time from a few ...

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 ...

The Pennsylvania Su­­preme on Tuesday denied further review of attempts by a former Altoona man seeking a reduction in his 31-to-46-year prison sentence for drug-related offenses. Charles A. Bellon, ...