Michigan has a sentencing problem. According to the Council on Criminal Justice, Michigan’s average prison sentence length is roughly three times the national average, and the state leads in the ...

That is especially true when considering the total lengths of their sentences, including time in custody and time on community supervision. Prosecutors in the more liberal Dane County tended to ...

Abshire said Buxton’s family members made victim impact statements in court, calling for the maximum sentence for Summer. “It is earth-shattering. Summer is not remorseful, she’s unapologetic,” said ...

“It isn’t helpful because we’ve known for years that sentence length is not a deterrent to crime, neither for the general public or for the person caught,” said David Trieweiler with the ...

This would account for about a third of defendants sentenced to any imprisonment. The average sentence length is almost two years, but half of the 649 defendants sentenced to incarceration ...