Top judge calls for fewer jail sentences
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The Lord Chief Justice, the most senior judge in England and Wales, urges greater use of community sentences.
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The Supreme Court gave a cool reception to the Bush administration&#39;s plea to save the rules that federal judges use in sentencing offenders yesterday, with a slim but firm majority of the court
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A judge who condemned federal sentencing laws as "unjust, cruel and irrational" said he had little choice Tuesday but to sentence a first-time drug offender caught with a handgun to 55 years and one day in prison.
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GALT, Calif.  - California's prisons are putting a  new emphasis on rehabilitation, but it may take years to reduce  the high level of repeat offenders, the state's top prison  official said on Wednesday.
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Attorneys for John Walker Lindh, who pleaded guilty in July 2002 to a charge of aiding the Taliban, are asking President Bush to reduce his 20-year prison sentence.
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A report on copyright and piracy laws says large scale offenders should face longer jail terms.
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A splintered Supreme Court threw the nation's federal sentencing system into turmoil Wednesday, ruling that the way judges have been sentencing some 60,000 defendants a year is unconstitutional.
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Judges should be allowed to impose harsher penalties on criminals without jury involvement, a government lawyer told the Supreme Court.
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BEIJING -- China has ordered judges to use the death penalty more sparingly by showing leniency for murderers who cooperate with authorities and white-collar criminals who help recoup their ill-gotten gains, the government said Friday.
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A judge urged former Yugoslav  President Slobodan Milosevic to inject more focus into his war  crimes trial defense Tuesday, comparing his questioning of a  witness to "a conversation over a cup of tea on a veranda."
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The judge in the court martial of three UK soldiers accused of abuse urges an end to public statements.
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Judges may be stopped from freeing criminals on legal 'loopholes' under government plans.
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WASHINGTON - Federal sentencing guidelines that allow judges to impose harsher penalties on criminals without jury involvement should be upheld as constitutional to avoid mayhem in courthouses nationwide, a government lawyer told the Supreme Court Monday.   "This case concerns the constitutionality of 1,200 criminal sentences that take place in federal court every week," said acting Solicitor General Paul Clement...
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The Lord Chief Justice says some murderers serve too long, risking jails becoming "full of geriatric lifers".
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A series of prohibitions recently issued by the Higher People&#39;s Court of the Beijing Municipality on judges&#39; dealings with cases are expected to help maintain justice if strictly implemented, says an article in Beijing Youth Daily.
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The justice secretary unveils plans aimed at cutting reoffending rates and drug use in prisons.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court appeared poised Monday to alter the system used for sentencing 64,000 federal criminal defendants a year, but justices clashed over whether changes would create greater inequity.    Judges, not juries, consider factors that can add years to defendants' prison sentences, under the government's 17-year-old system which has been challenged as unconstitutional...