A man convicted of killing a Niles police officer in 1982 is up for a parole hearing this month. The hearing is set for ...

With a deadline for a decision later this month, the family of St. Paul police officer James Sackett is urging the public to ...

Several New Jersey legislators have resurrected an effort to stop the state from sending parolees back to prison for ...

In 1995, Yolanda Saldivar was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 30 years for killing the singer The woman who murdered Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez in 1995 was ...

California’s elderly parole program is a fiscally responsible, evidence-based policy that allows rigorous consideration for ...

Surviving loved ones endure an agonizing, uncertain process as they await decisions from the state Parole Board on the fate of murderers once sentenced to serve a term of life without parole.

The decision by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds an earlier decision that attempts to fix what critics called a “procedural vortex” that unfairly kept people in prison with confusing documents ...

A woman convicted of fatally beating a Whitman man with a hammer in 1988 was denied parole. Here's what, why, and how long she'll remain in prison.

California’s crime rate began a historic plunge in the early 1990s and has fallen ever since, except for some small spikes, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet it took more than a decade until ...

Nick Mireles is a writer on the central coast of California. He has a knack for film, music, and Dungeons and Dragons. When he’s not writing, he tries to spend his days reading, surfing, and camping ...

In 2011, Governor Patrick made a mistake. It was just after a Woburn police officer named John Maguire had been shot and killed during an attempted robbery. The murderer was Dominic Cinelli, a career ...

This week, at the conclusion of a parole hearing at Dorchester Penitentiary in New Brunswick, Austin Deir was granted day ...