City leaders and criminal justice advocates question whether they should try to rewrite the crime code — or if the political landscape makes any attempt futile.

WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump will not face criminal sentencing in his New York hush money case before he accepts the GOP presidential nomination at the Republican National ...

President-elect Trump's sentencing for his criminal conviction in New York is scheduled for Friday morning.

The D.C. Council's president said he was withdrawing the measure, as the Senate was expected to vote on striking it down. Here's why it was so controversial.

The judge who presided over former President Donald Trump’s criminal case delayed his sentencing date late Tuesday. Judge Juan Merchan’s decision comes after Trump and his legal team pushed to ...

Congress Sentencing policy sparks clash over future criminal justice bills Republican senators warn that it is up to Congress to determine when prisoners can get relief from long sentences ...

In many cases, criticisms rest on sheer legal illiteracy about how criminal sentencing actually works. The D.C. bill is not a liberal wishlist of soft-on-crime policies.

President-elect Donald Trump's Nov. 26 sentencing hearing remains on hold as Manhattan prosecutors are due to weigh in on next steps Tuesday.

It's a microcosm of the larger debate about changing the nation's criminal justice system. This week, Republicans in the House took steps to block a new criminal code in Washington, D.C. which ...

Defenders say judges were seldom handing out the harshest sentences anyway so the Criminal Code Commission set prison time close to what judges have been actually sentencing.

The criminal code in the District of Columbia is over a century old and has never been updated -- Local leaders believe an overhaul is long overdue.