Would you wear the same clothes for months on end? Would you eat only hamburgers and fries for every meal? Then why, for heaven’s sake, would you think the same thoughts and repeat the same sentences ...

Judges could soon consider a new dimension when it comes to sentencing: the future. A recent news article at fivethrtyeight.com describes how, in Pennsylvania, judges may start using statistical ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado judges have declined to change sentences in nearly 1,400 cases that prison officials said may have mistakenly allowed convicts to each shave years ...

A victim of Jesse Butler, who pleaded no contest to sexual assault charges in Payne County, challenges his plea deal, which ...

A judge has agreed to hear arguments on changing a five- to 10-month jail sentence imposed on a suburban police chief's daughter in a group attack on a gay couple that prompted Philadelphia to add ...

SOMERVILLE - A Superior Court judge has refused to change the terms of the sentence handed down to the son of an ex-Giants star who pleaded guilty to running over a Raritan Township man outside a ...