Given a rare second chance, a Massachusetts man will finally share his story with the ones who decide whether he gets to use ...

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall issued a formal request Tuesday morning, calling for the governor to reappoint the ...

Leigh Gwathney’s term as chair of the parole board expires on Monday. It’s not clear yet if she is on the short list to be ...

Arizona prisoner Abelardo Chaparro fought illegal sentence promising nonexistent parole, setting precedent that freed ...

Weeks after President Donald Trump commuted the federal life sentence of Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, an apparently fake clemency petition arrived at the offices of Gov. JB Pritzker.

How can prisoners trapped on endless sentences persuade the Parole Board that they are safe to release? A psychologist offers advice. The Supreme Court justice Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood ...

Virginia Senate Democrats rejected four of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s nominees for the Virginia Parole Board on Thursday in an escalation of an ongoing fight over appointments.

Jackson Vogel will not be eligible for parole after receiving a life sentence for the hate crime death of his cellmate in ...

A man who spent 36 years in prison for the brutal murder of a betting shop manager he says he did not commit has been given ...

Eric Thompson, convicted of murdering 47-year-old Waipahu acupuncturist Jon Tokuhara, who had an affair with his wife, was ...

Good morning, Chicago. Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker this week set out to make history, launching his bid to become the first Illinois governor since the 1980s to be elected to more than two terms in ...