You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Life without parole in our prisons is a reflection of the inhumanity that is ...

Silly me. Here I thought only a judge — an individual who is charged with objectively meting out justice, highly trained in the law, duly empowered to pass a sentence, sits in a public forum, and ...

The widow of a murdered Pawnee County Sheriff is asking for the public's help in stopping one of the men who killed her ...

LD 1941, which would reestablish parole in Maine, will be reviewed at a public legislative hearing on Jan. 8. Testimony is ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- The state’s official government watchdog agency has completed an investigation into allegations made against the Virginia Parole Board, but the results and findings are unknown. In ...

The state parole board has been flooded with more than 367,000 online letters protesting the release of cop-killers since the panel voted to free police assassin Herman Bell, the PBA said Monday. Bell ...

The Times Union Editorial Board is right on the mark ("Parole needs reform," March 25). As a policymaker, I’ve learned about parole injustice through my constituents. The story of one of them ...

Here I am again pleading for help, as it’s become a yearly duty. My father, native Charlestonian Stanley H. Kohn, served as general counsel for South Carolina Department of Social Services in 1985 ...

Dr. Cory Franklin has expertise in intensive care but not the legal or criminal fields. His opinion in his recent op-ed has a glaring omission (“Should former Manson family member Leslie Van Houten be ...

Pawnee County Sheriff Dwight Woodrell was shot and killed in October 2001 while investigating suspicious activity in ...

I have been encouraged by the recent actions of the Board of Parole to follow guidelines that rely on more objective data and criteria to determine parole eligibility. Consequently, I am very ...

Defense attorney Malcolm LaVergne asked O.J. Simpson, "Did you take the letter?" — -- O.J. Simpson's defense attorney Malcolm LaVergne quipped with his client during Simpson's parole hearing ...