The rising tide of urban violence during the 1980s and 1990s caused lawmakers to consider ways to up the ante for chronic ...

NEW YORK, NY – The origins of the “Three Strikes Laws” can be traced to the early 1900s eugenics movement, according to a ...

It’s beyond time to end the “three strikes” law that sentences people to die in prison for their third drug offense — and instead give judges the discretion to levy punishments as they see ...

Demands for tougher laws and harsher penalties for criminal behavior are almost universal. In 1994, California enacted the nation’s most arduous version of a strict “three-strikes” law, which mandates ...

Members of the Colorado Supreme Court considered on Tuesday the request from prosecutors, on the one hand, to interpret the ...

In this paper, I adopt a critical sociological approach to analyse how labour law shaped a 23-day strike at a western Canadian university in the fall of 1995. I begin with a brief discussion of the ...

The state and the correctional officers’ union agreed that officers should return to work Monday and that some provisions of ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul made good on a threat to punish those who failed to meet a Monday deadline for returning to their posts ...

Members of the Colorado Supreme Court considered on Tuesday the request from prosecutors, on the one hand, to interpret the state's "three strikes" law in a way that is constitutionally compliant ...