Dec 12 (Reuters) - A U.S. panel tasked with crafting federal sentencing policy on Friday proposed tougher penalties for crimes involving the addictive opioid fentanyl and changes to how white collar ...

The United States Sentencing Commission on Wednesday voted to enact amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines, expanding the eligibility for prisoners to seek compassionate release. “Today, we ...

I am Alan D. Viard, a senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. I write to comment on the commission’s proposed inflationary adjustment to the loss tables ...

In what he said was his first opportunity to apply a newly enacted section of guidelines from the U.S. Sentencing Commission, U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block granted a defendant's motion to ...

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The advisory federal sentencing guidelines play an important role in the sentencing of federal offenders (they do not apply to state offenders). The US Sentencing Commission has proposed that the ...