Effective November 1, 2023, the United States Sentencing Commission’s Amendment 821, also known as the “2023 Criminal History Amendment,” has officially become part of the federal sentencing ...

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the right to a trial by jury and to due process apply to people who face a steep sentencing enhancement under federal law, in a ruling that transfers some power ...

In a unanimous opinion from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the U.S. Supreme Court said Friday that trial judges may issue concurrent—rather than consecutive—sentences for individuals convicted of ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A decade after Indiana overhauled its criminal code to reduce incarceration, lawmakers approved more than a dozen new crimes and sentencing enhancements. The new laws, set to take ...