The Justice Secretary said ‘all must be equal before the law’ as the Government introduced a Bill following a row over ...

The Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill will be introduced on Tuesday. However, it needs to be debated and ...

The row broke out after the body in charge of sentencing set guidelines saying ethnicity and gender should be considered ...

Under standard sentencing laws, a judge would usually give different ... Clear-headed thinking will best stand the test of ...

WASHINGTON, DC - A new policy report highlights various systemic injustices in the U.S. criminal legal system, and urges lawmakers to adopt significant ...

Sir Keir Starmer is ready to change the law to block “two-tier” sentencing rules after judges defied him by keeping them in ...

Courts should know as much as possible about offenders before passing sentence, says distinguished lawyer Helena Kennedy. So why is a new move to protect ethnic minorities from injustice proving ...

and policy-based questions. This assignment-based class directly engages with these questions. The course will explore the current state of sentencing law by investigating the principles and ...

Supreme Court justices are focused on questions of constitutional law as opposed to resolving criminal cases. Wisconsin's Supreme Court candidates have spent much of the monthslong campaign launching ...

Truth-in-sentencing laws are a big reason many people in prisons ... time,” said Lindsey Hammond, policy director with the group Restore Justice. Despite Democratic supermajorities in ...