Joel Castón, who was the first incarcerated person to be elected to office in D.C., could become the first formerly incarcerated person to serve on the D.C. Sentencing Commission.

A planned D.C. Council vote on a nominee to the city’s criminal sentencing commission was postponed Tuesday amid criticism from the District’s top prosecutor, who has argued that a man who ...

The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously Friday in Washington, D.C., to publish proposed changes in how drug offenses ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor condemned the federal sentencing commission’s failure to resolve a circuit split and scolded ...

Justice Department should not obstruct compassionate release. With the Sentencing Commission’s new guidance soon to be in effect and binding on federal judges, the DOJ and Attorney General ...

The policy approved this month by the low-profile U.S. Sentencing Commission is deep in the legal weeds, giving guidance for federal judges on how to interpret a section of a sweeping bipartisan ...

The Sentencing Commission is considering changing how federal prisoners can request compassionate release, a program essential to inmates with a terminally illness or other extraordinary circumstance.

The Sentencing Commission is tasked with advising the Council on issues that promote fair and consistent sentencing policy. According to the agency's website, ...

The Sentencing Commission then finally under Democratic President Joe Biden regained a quorum, and over the U.S. Department of Justice's objection on a 4-3 vote approved a policy statement in ...

The U.S. Sentencing Commission, a bipartisan panel that creates guidelines for the federal judiciary, voted unanimously Wednesday to adopt an amendment prohibiting judges from using acquitted ...

The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously Friday in Washington, D.C., to publish proposed changes in how drug offenses — and meth in particular — are punished.