The US Sentencing Commission's recommendation to into effect on November 1, 2026. Here is what it means for defendants.

The Federal Criminal Justice Clinic (FCJC) is the nation’s first legal clinic devoted to representing low-income clients ...

The advisory federal sentencing guidelines play an important role in the sentencing of federal offenders (they do not apply to state offenders). The US Sentencing Commission has proposed that the ...

Jail sentences — typically under one year — are served in a local county or city facility. Prison sentences are served in state or federal correctional institutions. What is a sentencing hearing?+ A ...

You see the headlines often. Someone commits a crime, a judge hands down a sentence with a handful of years, and then some time passes and that person is back home in a year or two. It feels wrong, ...