The DOJ announced it would encourage federal inmates who meet six criteria to apply to have their sentences reduced. What can we hope for? more

Prisoners in solitary confinement have “their minds altered by an experience so fraught with risk that scientists require special dispensation to do it to animals.” more

The Senate Judiciary Committee substantially changed its version of the Smarter Sentencing Act of 2013 and sent it to the whole Senate for a vote. Read on for details … more