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 ...

The appeals court heard how Stokes had struggled since retiring from football and developed an addiction to cocaine.

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

This is purely a crime of negligence without such intent. I emphasise once again that I loved my son and cared for him.” His ...