Michigan has a sentencing problem. According to the Council on Criminal Justice, Michigan’s average prison sentence length is ...

The Senate passed the HALT Fentanyl Act, targeting harsher sentences for traffickers as a bipartisan effort to reduce ...

The bipartisan vote reflected agreement among ... Many Democrats, along with public health and civil rights groups, note that harsh sentences for fentanyl-related drugs have driven up ...

House Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Tim Briggs, D-King of Prussia, is re-introducing a bill that would allowing the possibility for parole after 25 years of the sentence has been served.

Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont was among 16 Senate Democrats who voted against a bipartisan bill targeting fentanyl trafficking, ...

which many have called excessive in light of its disparity with sentences imposed for similar crimes.” The statement described the commutation as an “an action encouraged by bipartisan leaders ...