“Blended sentencing,” which took effect at the start of the year, allows prosecutors to try some youth as “serious youth ...

A California law that was supposed to provide safeguards against excessive prison sentences by giving juries the power to ...

The state's highest court upheld a law transferring more control of death penalty cases from local district attorneys to the ...

A proposed bill aims to give individuals serving lengthy prison sentences an opportunity to reduce their sentence.

The Supreme Court has tossed out the murder conviction and death sentence of Oklahoma's Richard Glossip, ordering a new trial.

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier has been released from a high-security Florida prison. Peltier was freed Tuesday morning, ...