We did our last update on President Obama's campaign promise to eliminate the disparity in sentencing for crack and cocaine on July 14, 2010. For the past two decades, possession of five grams of ...
In a pair of important decisions Monday, the Supreme Court gave federal trial judges much greater latitude to deviate from federal sentencing guidelines. In one of the decisions, Kimbrough v. United ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) C. Clare Strange, Drexel University (THE CONVERSATION) Pennsylvania’s new sentencing ...
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court wrestled Tuesday with how to give judges discretion to impose shorter prison terms without abandoning the national goal of similar punishments for similar crimes. In a ...
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers urged President Joe Biden in a letter Monday to commute the sentences of people who are affected by disparities in sentences for offenses involving crack and powder cocaine. "I ...
Assistant Research Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, Drexel University Pennsylvania’s new sentencing guidelines went into effect on Jan. 1, 2024. They mark the eighth iteration since the ...
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