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 ...

New Jersey has an "abusive and arbitrary" system that allows prosecutors to send children and teens to adult court, a new ...

Three people convicted in major drug cases over the past few decades will be released from federal prison after President Joe Biden commuted their sentence, along with those of nearly 2,500 others ...

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

Congresswoman Hayes spoke against the HALT Fentanyl Act, warning it could repeat past policies that fueled mass incarceration and racial disparities. She supports punishing traffickers but emphasizes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a statement released Friday,. Biden said the commutations were made to correct unfair sentencing disparities. “Today’s clemency action provides relief for individuals who received lengthy ...