AUGUSTA (WGME) – Maine lawmakers are debating mandatory minimum sentences for criminals. Right now, some criminal offenses in ...

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Weeks after Opposition Leader Peter Dutton announced his support for mandatory minimum jail terms for antisemitic offenses, ...

New Hampshire lawmakers are moving to toughen the state's fentanyl laws with proposals that would set mandatory minimum ...

Since 2015, there have been more than one million hit-and-run crashes in Florida. In those crashes, 2,419 people were killed. Approximately 84% of those crashes happened at dawn, dusk or nighttime.

The North Dakota House of Representatives voted Thursday to impose a minimum amount of time convicted human traffickers spend ...

Federal Labor has agreed to Coalition demands on mandatory minimum jail sentences, paving the way to pass the government's ...

A pair of Republican-backed bills seek to create mandatory minimum sentences for black-market fentanyl dealers in New Hampshire. Senate Bill 14 and Senate Bill 15, both sponsored by Sandown ...

Mandatory minimum sentencing is criticized for its ineffectiveness in reducing crime and undermining judicial independence. It limits judicial discretion, leading to potentially unjust outcomes ...