A federal judge Wednesday cut in half the 40-year prison sentence previously given to the one-time leader of the Bailey Boys, a violent street gang that sold drugs and committed robberies in the ...

Mandatory minimum sentencing is unlikely to help solve this issue—or any other issue for that matter. It has a poor track record of reducing crime.

A Chippewa Falls man accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting two children has now been convicted. Thomas E. Buetow, 35, 426 Woodward Ave., entered a no contest plea Wednesday in Chippewa County ...

Normally the charge carries a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison, but the defendant fell under safety valve statutes, ...

A Sioux City man has entered a guilty plea to possessing and helping someone who was intending to distribute drugs in ...

TO SET A HIGHER BAR FOR THIS PARTICULAR CRIME. I WANT TO BE ONE OF THE TOUGHEST STATES ON THIS ISSUE. GOVERNOR KELLY AYOTTE IS URGING STATE REPS TO PASS A PAIR OF SENATE BILLS AIMED AT CRACKING ...

President Donald Trump has not delivered on his pledge to have mandatory minimum sentences for criminals caught trying to re-enter the United States illegally. Trump supported a 2017 U.S. House of ...

Nicole Mitchell, a DFL senator from Woodbury, is due to be sentenced at 10 a.m. Sept. 10 at the Detroit Lakes Courthouse, ...

New mandatory minimum sentences for immigration offenses would be expensive, make immigration enforcement more difficult and divert public safety resources, Gill contends.

Updated 5:10 p.m. The Senate push to reform mandatory minimum sentencing law began Wednesday with a photo opportunity: Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) stopping for an ...

Attorney General Eric Holder, speaks about the mandatory minimum policy at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 2013 annual legislative conference in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013.

Mandatory minimum sentencing is proven to be bad policy. It won’t stop hate crimes Story by Lorana Bartels, Australian National University and Rick Sarre, University of South Australia • 2w ...