The Georgia legislation tries to protect survivors from long prison sentences by making changes to three key moments in a criminal case: the trial, sentencing and post-conviction. It will make it ...

A Philipsburg man was sentenced Tuesday to at least a decade in state prison after earlier pleading no contest to indecently assaulting a 1-year-old. Andrew L. Ramage, 28, was sentenced by Centre ...

Former New York Rep. George Santos got more than 7 years in prison Friday on federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft ...

Lengthy prison sentences can be as effective as the death ... advantage of examining Australia is there were not extremely long waits on death row as happens in the U.S.," explained Dr. O'Sullivan.