DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa House Judiciary Subcommittee advanced a bill on Thursday that would extend the mandatory minimum ...

Virginia Democrats propose eliminating minimum prison sentences for violent crimes including rape and manslaughter, sparking ...

ADDING MORE PROVISIONS TO THE BILL AND HOPES IT CAN PASS. HOUSE REPUBLICANS ATTEMPTING A COMPROMISE ON A BILL TO IMPOSE MANDATORY MINIMUM PRISON SENTENCES FOR POSSESSION OF LARGE AMOUNTS OF FENTANYL, ...

A bid to end the mandatory minimum sentences set in Virginia law that advocates say can result in unjustly lengthy stays was ...

CHARLESTON, WV (WVNS) – A bill to raise the mandatory minimum sentence for someone convicted of first-degree murder with ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...