A proposal championed by Utah's House speaker would significantly revamp the state's Sentencing Commission, removing defense attorneys and replacing them with prosecutors and police.

Randall L. Steeple previously pleaded no contest to home invasion, but his sentencing judge said his looming prison sentence ...

A Missouri man fighting a calculation that could keep him in prison for more than 40 years on a 23-year sentence lost the ...

Persia Nelson was sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison for the March 10, 2024, death of her daughter, Halo, who was found dying in a utility box at GE.

District Attorney General Thomas Dean announced that a criminal court judge passed down “one of the longest prison sentences for child sexual abuse-related offenses in Sumner County ...

Randy Gutierrez was sentenced to 75 years for each of two counts of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child after a Texas ...

Despite this the prison population remains virtually unchanged from last year – the most recent figure (26 January 2026) is 87,212 people in prison.

Convicted criminals won’t be able to use references from family and friends to get more lenient sentences in NSW, but more widespread change could be hard.

Provo, in Salt Lake City, national and state leaders came together on Tuesday night to discuss the most effective approaches to crime — and whether that means decreasing sentencing lengths.

A judge ordered a Pennsylvania man to serve two life sentences in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of his wife and her elderly aunt after a domestic dispute over cooking turned ...

Chinese national gets 46 months for laundering $37M through crypto romance scams targeting US victims via Cambodia operation.

PHILADELPHIA, PA — Federal judges in Philadelphia have sentenced five foreign nationals convicted of illegally reentering the ...