It’s no secret that our nation’s prisons are overcrowded and failing to keep our communities safe. Compared to peer nations around the globe, no country has more of its population ...

Minnesota now classifies $1 million Medicaid fraud as presumptive prison after Ellison urges change.

The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines play a pivotal role in some of the federal government's most consequential drug policy decisions. Two recurring themes have been the balancing—or lack of ...

New federal sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine offenses went into effect Monday, a week after the US Sentencing Commission promulgated them. The commission acted on a temporary basis to implement ...

Anachronistic and vaguely defined provisions that have been updated to reflect today's business and technological landscape can lead to aberrant results. As the pandemic shifted a significant amount ...

Pennsylvania’s new sentencing guidelines went into effect on Jan. 1, 2024. They mark the eighth iteration since the state first introduced such guidelines in 1982 and are perhaps the most ...