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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Susan Smith, in prison for the cold-blooded 1994 murders of her two young sons, is hoping to be granted parole later this month — but the parole board has been deluged with dozens of letters of ...

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

The Times Union’s in-depth reporting on the injustices of the parole system has covered everything from racial disparities in parole releases to the shocking decrease in overall releases amid deadly ...

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 ...

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 ...