South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is urging lawmakers to strengthen penalties for crimes involving child sexual ...

President Joe Biden's administration took some steps to discourage mandatory minimum sentences. But in other cases, Biden opposed efforts to reduce them, and he did not support or introduce ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Helena Pallarés for Deseret Magazine Mandatory minimum sentences require judges to impose fixed prison terms for certain crimes ...

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 ...

Beginning in October, repeat sexual offenders in Florida will serve a minimum of a decade in jail for their crimes. A new Florida law establishing a minimum sentence for people repeatedly convicted of ...

Mandatory minimum sentences became popular in the 1990s, a time when law and order lawmakers added so many offenses to the list that Virginia prisons strained to accommodate all the inmates.

The Iowa House Judiciary Subcommittee advanced a bill on Thursday that would extend the mandatory minimum prison sentence for ...

In their Sentencing Guidelines column, Covington & Burling's Alan Vinegrad and Jason Levine write: Mandatory minimum sentences have, for years, been the subject of complaints from the bench, the ...

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 ...

It didn't get much media attention, but if you go to page 654 of the 655-page the National Defense Authorization Act of 2010, signed by President Barack Obama on Oct. 28, 2009, you will find Sec. 4713 ...