The most frequently sentenced federal crimes in Texas include violations of federal immigration, drug and firearms law, according to 2022 data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission. These are also ...

It imposed mandatory federal sentences of 20 years to life in prison for violating drug laws and made sentences for possession and sale of crack rocks harsher than those for powder cocaine.

By 1997, although Blacks and Latinos made up less than a quarter of the state’s population, they accounted for 94 percent of prisoners serving felony sentences for drug crimes.

A federal judge in Orlando says mandatory-minimum sentencing laws that required him to sentence a homeless drug addict to five years in prison for making a $30 delivery were “unjust” an… ...