Weeks after Opposition Leader Peter Dutton announced his support for mandatory minimum jail terms for antisemitic offenses, the government has legislated such laws. Minister for Home Affairs Tony ...

Whole life orders are given in cases where the crime was deemed so serious that the offender should never be released from ...

Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Obama Administration is expanding their mandatory sentencing reforms to cases where charges have already been filed, during a Congressional Black Caucus ...

Justice Secretary David Lammy has announced to the House of Commons that he plans to introduce whole life jail sentences for ...

A good deal of fanfare accompanied Gov. Katie Hobbs’ signing of a law on Wednesday that increases prison time for fentanyl dealers. Law enforcement officials who flanked the governor hailed the law as ...

May 20—CONCORD — A bill prompted by Adam Montgomery's initial refusal to attend his sentencing on a murder conviction has run into a major roadblock in the state Senate after corrections officials ...

BOSIE, Idaho (KIFI) - Mandatory minimum sentences for fentanyl charges in Idaho have now become law. Governor Brad Little officially signed House Bill 406 into law Monday. The controversial bill was ...

DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court made an extraordinary change to the state’s sentencing law Thursday, striking down automatic, no-parole prison terms for 19-year-olds and 20-year-olds ...

Local law enforcement agencies complain they are unable to arrest traffic violators and persons subject to arrest warrants because of overcrowding at county jails. County jail officials state they are ...