The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Suffolk County Superior Court, cites a state Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) decision that declared it unconstitutional for judges to sentence anyone younger than 21 to life ...

SUMTERVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his ...

Act, the local court may not impose a new sentence of imprisonment to be served consecutively (or partly concurrently and ...

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of killing two FBI agents, was released after Biden commuted his life sentence ...

The Independent Sentencing Review said longer jail terms have been a ‘knee jerk’ policy response which has led to an ...

Editorial: As David Gauke, the former justice secretary, makes clear in his welcome report into Britain’s failing jail system, it is easy to promise ‘tougher’ sentences – but what the UK really needs ...

Peltier, 80, is now free to return to his reservation in North Dakota to spend his remaining years confined in his home.

Edna Larrabee and Beulah Brunelle wouldn’t stay behind bars and were among the state’s most elusive prisoners.

SUMTERVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after ...

Robert Melvin, Northeast Region Director, R Street Institute Testimony in Support of MD HB 853: “Criminal Procedure – Petition to Reduce Sentence (Maryland Second Look Act).” February 18, 2025 ...

Violent offenders can be let into open prisons years earlier under a relaxation of rules. Natalie Queiroz, whose ex tried to ...

Richard A. Wilson reported the following persons were recently sentenced in the Court of Common Pleas in Towanda: ...