Jail sentences for some serious crimes could be reduced under a government review aimed at tackling the prison overcrowding ...

The sentencing review is expected to consider scrapping short-term custodial sentences in favour of community sentences ...

Dr Stephanie Wallace guest posts on making better use of non-custodial sentences using the Sentence Severity Scale.

The former Celtic and Sunderland striker, who was over the alcohol limit, drove at an estimated 160 km/h and nearly collided ...

French prosecutors in the embezzlement trial of Marine Le Pen, France’s hard-Right leader, have demanded she get a jail ...

“At the very young age she sought to ‘forge’ a pathway in the medical field.” Those were the words of the attorney ...

Ex-Republic of Ireland footballer Anthony Stokes has avoided jail on appeal for a cocaine seizure and a high speed car chase ...

Stokes was caught driving at speeds up to 160 km/h, under the influence of alcohol, and nearly caused a collision shortly ...

“There is going to be a custodial sentence imposed,” Judge Aylmer said. “Given that this involved the penetration of a child ...

The Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice Raymond Ozoemena, has assured full implementation of non-custodial sentences through ...

Smolders, 45, was killed after Earhart struck him with his Dodge Dakota pickup truck while Smolders was cycling on Calvert Drive and Mayfair Road in Adelaide-Metcalfe, not far from his home, during ...