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Proposed amendments published in January — covering career offender guidelines, human smuggling penalties, and sentencing options — closed a public comment period in March and a cycle that can rewrite federal sentences without Congress.
The Justice Department's statistical agency released early 2024 jail figures in December 2025, with 7.9 million annual admissions — and final tables still to come.
In State v. Tolbert, the Eighth District Court of Appeals reversed a suppression ruling and sent the case back after police did not tell the issuing judge that an algorithm, not a witness, supplied the suspect identification.
From California's roughly 800 new statutes to Illinois's removal of a prosecution time limit for involuntary servitude offenses, the new year reset the rulebook in courthouses across the country.
In a May 21, 2025 announcement, the Civil Rights Division withdrew from Biden-era pattern-or-practice probes and proposed consent decrees, shifting the reform question to city hall and state capitols.
A mid-term review of the Court's 2025-26 criminal docket found early unanimity, including a January 20 ruling that Mandatory Victim Restitution Act orders count as punishment under the Ex Post Facto Clause.