On Aug. 4, 2022, WNBA star Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years of prison time to be served at a Russian penal colony. The sentence may have some wondering what a penal colony is. According to ...

Lynn Fitch is the attorney general of Mississippi. The American Law Institute last month chose to unravel decades of progress that prosecutors, law enforcement, and victims’ advocates have made in the ...

At the American Law Institute’s Annual Meeting on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 members voted to approve The Model Penal Code: Sentencing Project—a 15-year project to revise the Model Penal Code, first ...

On 3 April 2019, the new Brunei penal code, the Syariah Penal Code Order 2013, came fully into force. It has paved the way for the implementation of draconian punishments for various offences and for ...

At sentencing, the Modoc County Probation Department recommended a term of five years in state prison. The District ...