Sizemore's prison sentenced reduced
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Tom Sizemore's 16-month prison sentence for violating probation in a drug case was dramatically reduced Tuesday.
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Californians who a decade ago voted in a landslide for a "Three Strikes" measure imposing long prison terms on career criminals are being asked to scale back that law by those who say it has unjustly snared small-time offenders.
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Charles Jenkins, a US military serviceman, received a minor sentence Wednesday to 30 days in confinement and dishonorable discharge by a US court-martial for his desertion in 1960s, the US Army said.
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: The first American military intelligence soldier to be court-martialled over the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal was sentenced today to eight months in jail, a reduction in rank and a bad-conduct discharge.
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Actor Tom Sizemore, best known for battle-hardened film roles in "Saving Private Ryan" and "Black Hawk Down," was sentenced on Monday to 16 months in prison for violation his probation in a drug possession case.
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Number of prisoners in England and Wales reduced by 1,500 since emergency measures came in.
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A federal judge has reduced by more than half the amount of damages that a fundamentalist Kansas church must pay to the father of a Marine who was killed in Iraq.
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Fewer prison inmates were moved to death row in 2005, according to a federal study that shows one more person was executed than in the year before.
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British ex-rocker Gary Glitter,  imprisoned in Vietnam for sexually molesting two young girls,  on Wednesday had his three-year sentence reduced by three  months, his lawyer said.
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Portugal&#39;s highest court cut the jail  sentence on a convicted pedophile, causing outrage on Tuesday  in a country sensitive to the plight of children after the  abduction of a 4-year-old British girl.
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The first American military intelligence  soldier to be court-martialed over the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal  was sentenced Saturday to eight months in jail, a reduction in  rank and a bad-conduct discharge.
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An American citizen serving a 20-year sentence for fighting with the former Taleban regime in Afghanistan is asking President Bush to reduce his prison term.
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President Bush commuted the sentence of former aide I. Lewis Libby Jr. on Monday, sparing him from a 30-month prison term in the C.I.A. leak case.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - The U.S. government dropped  the main charge on Saturday against a female soldier who posed  in front of a pyramid of naked Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison.
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The fifth defendant in the Michael Vick dogfighting case was sentenced to three years probation and fined $500 on Friday.
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A Moroccan court on Tuesday slightly reduced the sentences of two journalists convicted for publishing confidential information related to the country&#39;s anti-terrorism operations.
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State lawmakers voted Tuesday to scale back some mandatory prison terms under New York's infamously harsh drug laws, which critics said caused low-level offenders and addicts to spend too much time in state prison.