There’s a place in California where people actually finish their sentences without checking their phones. Welcome to Paso ...

A doctor working for the Department of Correction (DOC) submitted a medical parole petition on his behalf, saying Payne was ...

Wisconsin prisoners will be able to apply to have their sentences commuted. Here’s where they and their families can learn more.

Ten years after the phrase "Pike County massacre " attached itself to the southern Ohio county – a swath of rural Appalachia ...

While some groups had issues with components of the proposal, the move rankled criminal justice advocates who have long ...

Everyone in Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s big-hearted book is given choices, and those tiny, blink-or-you’ll-miss-it ...

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Between fiscal years 2018 and 2024, about 14% of the prisoners who applied for medical parole were granted release.

A judge sentenced an 18-year-old, who acknowledged killing five people in a North Carolina mass shooting, to life in prison without parole Friday, rejecting arguments that he deserved the chance for ...

Nguyen Van Loc was persecuted for performing Hanoi’s old romantic music during (and after) the Vietnam War. He can’t stop. He ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling is part of a nationwide trend to challenge life without parole sentences.

Kabila took over as the fourth president of the Congo in 2001, just days after his father, President Laurent-Désiré Kabila, ...