A divided federal appeals court ruled that a policy adopted in 2023 by the U.S. Sentencing Commission which allowed judges to ...

Once in a blue moon, you run across a statistic or record that is mind-boggling. Some are amazing, like Alex Ovechkin’s 895 ...

The federal sentencing landscape in the United States could undergo a significant transformation with recent amendments to update the United ...

The bipartisan United States Sentencing Commission met on April 11, 2025, and voted unanimously to publish amendments to federal sentencing guidelines for the amendment cycle, which ends on May 1 ...

The number of cases for illegal reentry brought in federal court in North Florida in 2025 are on track to outpace the ...

The US Sentencing Commission’s compassionate release policy provision for “unusually long sentences,” added in 2023, can’t stand, the Sixth Circuit ruled Tuesday.

But in April 2024, amid pressure from various lawyers, judges, and advocates, the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the judicial-branch agency that writes the federal sentencing guidelines, unanimously ...

The Sixth Circuit said it won’t modify an April 22 opinion rejecting part of the US Sentencing Commission’s policy on compassionate release, despite the Justice Department’s concern that the decision ...

Nationwide, 12,869 illegal reentry cases were prosecuted in fiscal year 2023, the most recent year data is available, according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission. The numbers nationwide in 2019 ...