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

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

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

no sentence. Among the unprecedented and unique ... This closely watched legal case highlights the disparities in the in the American criminal justice system. In 2016 when Stormy Daniels was ...

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In a statement, Biden said he was attempting to correct sentencing disparities between sentences for crack and powder cocaine. Today's clemency action provides relief for individuals who received ...

The White House said that Biden’s action addresses the disparities in sentencing, particularly those resulting from the unequal treatment of crack versus powder cocaine offenses. “These individuals ...

Sun-Times files Share In one of his last official acts, former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Gangster Disciples co-chairman Gregory Shell, one of almost 2,500 “non-violent ...

Outgoing US President Joe Biden called the move "an important step toward righting historic wrongs, correcting sentencing disparities, and providing deserving individuals the opportunity to return to ...

The Fair Sentencing Act significantly reduced the disparity in sentencing between the ownership of powder cocaine and crack cocaine established by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. Possession of crack ...

The decision comes just days before his term ends, underscoring his commitment to addressing sentencing disparities rooted in outdated policies. "Today's clemency action provides relief for ...

it is time that we equalize these sentencing disparities." The new list of commutations comes after Biden already set a record for the largest single-day act of presidential clemency last month ...