A man convicted of raping a 5-year-old in 1997 is up for a hearing that would determine if he's eligible for parole ...

Fury over the parole release of a child sex predator has now made its way to the state legislature, where Democrats are moving closer to the middle to address a loophole that let it happen. Both ...

California lawmakers are backing away from an earlier push to significantly raise the age threshold for certain inmates seeking parole, following pressure from criminal justice advocacy groups. At the ...

Critics warn four proposed New York state bills could lead to the early release of serial killers, mass murderers and ...

In 2013, when I had been locked up in solitary confinement for 25 years, I wrote an essay entitled “A Sentence Worse Than ...

The governor’s announcement came in the wake of a shooting, the second in as many years to injure a Sioux Falls police ...

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