Federal law enforcement officials in 2024 — the last for which data is available — charged fewer than 500 people with marijuana trafficking, according to data provided by the US Sentencing Commission.

Federal probation officers use the sentencing guidelines from the U.S. Sentencing Commission to calculate sentencing ranges, which most judges accept. Prosecutors typically recommend a sentence ...

Jackson, an appointee of former Democratic President Joe Biden, previously served on the independent U.S. Sentencing Commission, which develops guidelines for judges to consider as they impose ...

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26 This recent voting history suggests that the Commission may now again in the 2025 term unanimously adopt at least the parts of the drug offenses amendment that expand safety valve sentencing ...

There is clear evidence that older individuals are far less likely to reoffend. The U.S. Sentencing Commission found that recidivism rates drop sharply with age, from 38% among those released at ...

Professor O’Hear thus urged the US Sentencing Commission to “consider restructuring section 3E1.1 in order to render such a controversial matter as a trial penalty more open to public and ...

MIAMI - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said on Thursday she would support revisiting sentencing guidelines ...