The US Sentencing Commission passed a retroactive amendment to subtract two points from the sentencing guideline calculation for many with no past criminal history. Yesterday, the United States ...

The commission was created by the Sentencing Reform Act provisions of the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984. The constitutionality of the commission was challenged as a congressional ...

Joel Castón being sworn is as an ANC commissioner in June 2021, before his release from prison. (Courtesy DC Department of Corrections) The D.C. Council voted Tuesday to appoint Joel Castón to its ...

A U.S. panel tasked with crafting federal sentencing policy on Friday proposed tougher penalties for crimes involving the addictive opioid fentanyl and changes to how white collar defendants are ...

For the past 18 months, federal courts have grappled with the impact of Covid-19 on sentencing proceedings, and a curious disparity has emerged. On the one hand, anecdotal evidence suggests that ...

A government panel could soon limit a little-known but outrageous practice that allows federal judges to enhance defendants' sentences based on conduct a jury acquitted them of. The U.S. Sentencing ...

President Donald Trump has nominated former prosecutor and current Georgetown Law adjunct professor William Otis to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, a body that Otis once said should be abolished. Otis ...

A convicted murderer who spent 27 years behind bars has been appointed to the Washington, D.C., prison sentencing commission that drafts and modifies criminal sentencing guidelines. Joel Castón, who ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- Defendants convicted of felonies in Alabama would have to serve 85 percent of their prison terms under a tough-on-crime proposal by the state's Sentencing Commission. But unless the ...