Cornyn is part of a bipartisan congressional group negotiating sentencing reform, one of many needed repairs of the criminal justice system. What justice requires, frugality encourages: Too many ...

For an illustrative example of how an evidence-based, informed criminal-justice system could work, consider the high-profile sentencing of Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager.

Sentencing reform is critical for youth in the justice system by Marc Levin and Jody Kent Lavy, opinion contributors - 09/16/18 10:45 AM ET ...

In 2015, Senator Chuck Grassley introduced a long awaited bi-partisan criminal justice reform bill designed to address inequities in federal sentencing and promote rehabilitation and re-entry for ...

Acting Solicitor General Paul Clement speaks of "carnage and wreckage" in the federal criminal-sentencing system. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer worries that his colleagues may be destroying ...

“We are concerned that the commission is about to make a seismic structural change to our criminal justice system without congressional authorization or directive,” Commissioner Candice C ...

Understand, I am not contending that the criminal-justice system is without flaws badly in need of correction. But the main problem is not severe sentencing. It is over-criminalization.

The team’s algorithm for predicting sentencing bias has various accuracy limits, but other risk assessment tools already used in the criminal justice system bear similar impediments, report ...

Despite the retributive focus of our criminal justice system today, the United States has some foundation in parsimonious practices. Until the final decades of the 20th century, the primary goal ...

Trump’s flurry of posts came after Justice Juan Merchan on Friday stated Trump will be sentenced on Jan. 10 for his criminal hush money conviction — but also forecasted that the president ...

The dual goals of our criminal justice system are to maximize public safety and to ensure the fair and impartial administration of justice. The system operates with five components — law ...

King resold 101 guns within three days, and at the time of his sentencing on March 15, 24 of the firearms had been recovered by law enforcement in connection with various crimes.