A proposed bill aims to give individuals serving lengthy prison sentences an opportunity to reduce their sentence.

Brian Anderson knee-caps politicians for work. He also helped nab a Trump pardon for accused drug trafficker Ross Ulbricht.

A man was sentenced to slightly more than 12 years in federal prison for distributing more than 8 pounds of methamphetamine ...

At least a dozen offenders from Western New York had their prison sentences reduced anywhere from three to 11 years under ...

Recent changes to the legal process in Alabama makes it more difficult to challenge such cases, the report states.

Roughly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders nationwide received a grant of executive clemency in January, including 10 people in ...

Hampton would have instead faced a mandatory minimum of 15 years. Hampton also saw his sentence impacted by the strong disparity between punishments for possessing crack cocaine and powder cocaine.

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

Former Attorney General Merrick Garland, noting that still-existing differences in sentencing have “no basis in science, further no law enforcement purposes and drive unwanted disparities in our ...

State of the Judiciary address given yesterday by the chief judge of New York’s highest court, Rowan Wilson, is usually a ...

Reformers have for years sought such changes to the meth laws, which like crack cocaine, have created racial disparities in sentencing. “Most of these commenters state that purity is no longer ...

The Supreme Court was recently informed by the Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati that the feasibility of ...