On Tuesday in Sacramento, the Assembly Public Safety Committee voted 8-0 to advance Assembly Bill 1959, a bipartisan measure authored by Assemblymember Dr. Darshana Patel (D-San Diego). The bill aims ...

A bill inspired by the potential release from prison of the then-teenage shooter behind the deadly 2001 shooting at Santana ...

The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday considered a pair of cases that deal with resentencing people serving long prison ...

It ruled in 2022’s People v. Stovall that life sentences for second-degree murder for juveniles, even with the possibility ...

Current laws offer re-sentencing relief for juvenile defendants who have served at least 15 years of a life-without-parole ...

Per current law, cases are transferred to juvenile court if the defendant was under 16 when they committed their crimes.

After more than a decade without disciplinary reports, a Massachusetts man was released under a groundbreaking ruling.

The Michigan Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case today involving the Fifth Amendment and criminal sentencing. Colin ...

San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan, Assemblymember Darshana Patel, and El Cajon City Councilmember Phil Ortiz ...

A California bill that would close a legal loophole allowing convicted mass shooters to seek reduced sentences is pending ...

A man convicted of murder in the 2004 Brockton shooting of John Falcone of Hanson was sentenced to life without parole. Why ...