The Sentencing Project warns that the overreach of federal criminal law into local offenses disproportionately harms Black ...

Sean "P. Diddy" Combs faces sentencing on October 3 after being found guilty of transporting people for prostitution. While ...

Sean "Diddy" Combs was convicted in July of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution following a more than ...

WASHINGTON — A federal public defender asked the court to consider President Donald Trump’s pardons of Jan. 6 defendants while sentencing offenses from political protests in his defense of a man who ...

On the campaign trail, candidate Barack Obama pledged to "eliminate disparity in sentencing for crack and cocaine." Under the current law, possession of five grams of crack cocaine triggers an ...

We did our last update on President Obama's campaign promise to eliminate the disparity in sentencing for crack and cocaine on July 14, 2010. For the past two decades, possession of five grams of ...

Whisler When crack cocaine appeared on American streets in the 1980s, it presented a new and troubling drug problem for law enforcement. As a concentrated derivative of powdered cocaine, crack ...