If we do nothing, we are choosing to let the corrections budget take away from the FBI's ability to disrupt terrorist groups.
We should be willing to reevaluate mandatory minimum sentences.
It is a problem that Congress created, but it is also a problem that Congress can fix, and it is high time we do so.
Many States, led by Senator Hirono's home State of Hawaii's example, the HOPE program, have implemented parole systems that impose 'swift an...
I think the main drivers of this prison growth are front-end sentencing laws that were enacted by us in Congress, like the proliferation of ...
In Rhode Island, under the leadership of Director Wall, we passed reforms that allowed inmates to earn credit toward their sentences.
For shame.
It is overall because of the quality of our judiciary that John Adams' vision that the United States be a Government of laws and not men sti...
Overburdened judges almost by definition cannot provide the level of time and care and reflection they would like to for each case before th...
We must not, however, take our federal judiciary for granted.
Congress has not comprehensively addressed judicial staffing levels since 1990, 23 years ago.