In President Trump’s first week, the new administration revoked Biden-era Department of Justice policies designed to mitigate ...

The government agency responsible for implementing federal sentencing policy has taken the first step toward loosening controversial methamphetamine trafficking punishments that have flooded prisons ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Lawmakers, activists, and families of incarcerated New Yorkers gathered Tuesday at the New York State Capitol to demand that the State Legislature pass a pair of parole reform ...

The Kerala High Court urged the Parliament to amend the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act to address ...

Washington Democrats want lighter sentences for dangerous criminals because too many offenders are black, they argue.

The grant of clemency, Biden explained, “provides relief for individuals who received lengthy sentences based on discredited ...

President Biden's final round of pardons and commutations marks a step towards justice and equity for Black Americans, addressing mass incarceration and disparities.

Bitcoiners celebrate as the pardon came hours after Senator Rand Paul sent a compelling letter to the White House.

We construct a framework that defines optimal outcomes in criminal courts, and we use this framework to interpret and organize the existing literature on racial disparities in pretrial detention, ...

The men had been acquitted by a jury of the murder of a police officer, but the judge had concluded that they had been ...