With a continuing wave across the country of tougher punishment for youths who commit serious crimes, the Supreme Court on Monday returned to the constitutional controversy that the wave has stirred.

Last Wednesday in Setser v. United States, the Court held that federal district judges have authority to direct that a criminal sentence be served consecutively or concurrently to a state sentence, ...

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Federal judges handed down dozens of lighter sentences due to brutal conditions in New York City’s federal jails during the coronavirus pandemic, new statistics obtained by the Daily News show. A ...

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Federal judges in New York City gave dozens of lighter prison sentences during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, often citing brutal conditions in Manhattan and Brooklyn jails as the reason, an ...