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 jury’s verdict in the trial against Sean P Diddy Combs has been revealed but will he go to jail and for how long?

Breaking down RICO Act amid Sean 'Diddy' Combs' ongoing trial. Learn more about the racketeering law's requirements and ...

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 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.

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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.