Mandatory minimum sentences, widely associated with the Rockefeller Drug Laws in New York, helped launch the mass incarceration era of the 1970s and 80s. While specific Rockefeller laws have been ...

Violent crime is on the rise in some of the largest cities, including Washington D.C., where a number of proposals from Mayor Muriel Bowser were discussed this past week among lawmakers. Mandatory ...

A federal law imposes a mandatory 15-year sentence for possessing a gun after committing three serious drug offenses. But which offenses count? By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington The Supreme ...

More than 75 percent of Americans now support getting rid of mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent offenders, a new Reason-Rupe poll finds. Eliminating mandatory minimum sentences would give ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Friday that thousands of low-level drug dealers are ineligible for shortened prison terms under a Trump-era bipartisan criminal justice overhaul. The justices ...

In a letter to lawmakers, the New Jersey Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission recommended four basic sentencing reforms, including an end to mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug ...

Efforts to end minimum mandatory sentences for non-violent drug offenders in New Jersey are again being put on the table, three years after a similar proposal was conditionally vetoed by Gov. Phil ...

Bill would raise mandatory minimum from 3 years to 20 years for repeat felony offenders ...

The Sentencing Project's article cites evidence that increasing prison sentences based on criminal history does not improve public safety and disproportionately harms people of color, and proposes ...