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 Worcester man pleaded guilty on Thursday to sexually exploiting three minor females and possessing child pornography.

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.

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 ...

A former Guam Department of Corrections officer on Thursday was sentenced to 120 months, or 10 years, in federal prison, with credit for time served and five years of supervised ...

A federal judge Wednesday cut in half the 40-year prison sentence previously given to the one-time leader of the Bailey Boys, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...