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The Supreme Court on Friday dealt a blow to potentially thousands of federal prison inmates by ruling against a convicted drug dealer seeking a shorter sentence under a 2018 law.

The issue involved how to read a “safety valve” in federal criminal sentencing laws, which allows defendants to…

Former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández has been found guilty on charges relating to drug trafficking and weapons possession in a federal jury trial in New York (view full…

Jasmine Yoon has been confirmed by the Senate and will become the first Asian American Article III federal judge to serve in Virginia (…

Wherein the Tenth Circuit gives some side-eye to a Colorado prison's "troubling" DEI programming—warning that "race-based training programs can create hostile workplaces when official policy is combined with…

FBI agents on Monday raided a federal women’s prison in California so plagued by sexual abuse it was known among inmates and workers as the “rape club.” The action…

The full U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved Judge Melissa R. DuBose’s historic nomination as the first person of color and first openly LGBTQ judge to serve on the U.S. District Court for Rhode Island (…

Colorado’s star DNA scientist intentionally manipulated evidence for years, calling into question all of the criminal cases she worked on in her nearly three-decade career, according to a preliminary investigation released by officials Friday (…

The 2023 Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics is now available, comprising a compilation of data collected from the 300,000+ sentencing documents submitted to the United States Sentencing Commission by federal courts…

Clara Shortridge Foltz was the first woman lawyer on the Pacific Coast and the founder of the public defender movement.  She sued for entrance into California’s only law school, tried cases in court when women were not allowed to serve on juries and played a key role in winning women’…

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in law enforcement investigations continues to put innocent people, especially innocent people of color, at risk of wrongful arrest. Artificial intelligence technologies are being developed and implemented by law enforcement agencies across the country.…