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Texas Legislators Propose Over 100 Bills To Increase Criminal Penalties
Texas lawmakers are proposing at least 121 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and prisons whose...
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Mar 142 min read
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Justice Jackson Calls For Revising White-Collar Term Guidelines
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson would support revisiting federal sentencing guidelines for white collar crime because the...
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Mar 111 min read
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California Resentencing Law Leads To 174 Releases In Nine Counties
In 2023, more than two decades after prosecutors sent her to prison on a drug conviction that triggered California's three-strikes law, a...
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Mar 102 min read
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'Serial' Defendant Remains Free in Ruling Sidestepping Innocence Claim
Invoking a relatively new state law, a Baltimore judge sidestepped a dispute over the guilt or innocence of Adnan Syed in the murder case...
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Mar 72 min read
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DOJ Claims Louisiana Holds Inmates Past Release Date
Louisiana’s prison system routinely holds people weeks and months after they have completed their sentences , the U.S. Department of...
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Dec 24, 20242 min read
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Advocates Point To A Well-Funded, Corporate Campaign Behind Tough-On-Crime Measures In CA
California voters chose harsher sentencing and tough-on-crime prosecutors this week in overwhelming numbers, the Intercept reports. ...
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Nov 12, 20242 min read
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Shaneva McReynolds Assumes Presidency Of FAMM
FAMM, formerly called Families Against Mandatory Minimums), named Shaneva McReynolds as president. She has been involved with FAMM since...
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Oct 24, 20241 min read
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Appeals Court Says 14-Year Term For Avenatti Was Excessive
A federal appeals panel vacated a 14-year prison term for suspended lawyer Michael Avenatti, who rose to fame representing porn actor...
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Oct 24, 20241 min read
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Opponents Of CA Plan To Boost Penalties Say It Is Too Costly
When it first emerged last year, a California proposal to increase penalties for some drug and theft crimes provoked a discussion over...
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Oct 8, 20242 min read
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CA Bar Targets Inmates' Lawyer for 'Offering False Hope'
A West Los Angeles lawyer who signed up hundreds of prisoners as clients by convincing their desperate families he could free them faces...
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Aug 29, 20242 min read
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Justices: Low-Level Drug Dealers Ineligible For Shorter Prison Time
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that thousands of low-level drug dealers are ineligible for shortened prison terms under a Trump-era...
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Mar 15, 20241 min read
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How a Native American Man Was Freed From a 60-150 Year Sentence
Efrain Hidalgo thought he would die in custody after being sentenced to 60 to 150 years on drug charges. Now, instead of spending the...
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Feb 13, 20241 min read
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D.C. Council To Decide Whether Man Formerly Incarcerated For Murder Should Help Shape Sentencing Guidelines
The D.C. Council is set to decide Tuesday whether a man who spent 27 years behind bars for murder should serve on a city commission that...
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Jan 9, 20242 min read
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Thousands Of Federal Inmates May Get Shorter Terms Under New Rules
Sweeping changes to federal sentencing guidelines took effect on Wednesday, after Congress took no action to veto the U.S. Sentencing...
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Nov 2, 20232 min read
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Federal Inmate, 81, Shows How Prison Reforms Missed The Mark
Federal inmate number 14289-077, Bonnie Erwin, 81, has been incarcerated for 39 years in different facilities. For the past three years,...
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Sep 26, 20232 min read
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Court Tosses Man's 200-Year Term For 1976 Killing Of Chicago Cop
An appellate court panel could free a man imprisoned since 1976 in the shooting death of a Chicago police officer after ruling that his...
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Sep 22, 20231 min read
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Court Delays Increase Zeal for Punishment, Study Finds
A series of studies showed that delays in the judicial process consistently result in more severe punishment, and that people pile on...
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Sep 1, 20232 min read
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U.S. Commission Votes For Retroactive Sentencing Reductions
The United States Sentencing Commission voted to allow for retroactive sentence reductions and adopted its next set of policy priorities...
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Aug 25, 20231 min read
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Innocence Claims Hitting New Roadblocks After June Ruling
Prisoners' lawyers say last month's U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting innocence challenges in court is causing more harm in an arena...
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Jul 24, 20232 min read
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Supreme Court Rules For Drug Trafficker In Bid For Lower Term
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled for a drug trafficker in his bid for a lesser sentence. In a unanimous ruling Friday, the justices said a...
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Jun 16, 20231 min read
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