The Supreme Judicial Court's controversial Mattis decision earlier this year opened up the possibility of parole for as many ...

The Parole Board has been asked to reconsider its decision to release Steven Ling. He was jailed for life in 1998 for ...

A state parole panel reversed an earlier decision that could have freed former LAPD Det. Stephanie Lazarus from a life ...

Steven Ling was sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1997 murder of 29-year-old Joanne Tulip in Stamfordham, Northumberland ...

Virginia’s General Assembly passed a bill that required more transparency around parole. It was abolished in 1995, but people ...

A chance for parole has been rescinded for a former Los Angeles police detective convicted of killing her ex-boyfriend’s wife ...

A campaign to free five women, known as the “Mississippi Five,” shows how prison populations throughout the region are aging.

Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for his role in the 1992 fatal shooting of a convenience store owner after the governor again rejected a recommendation from the state’s parole board to spare a ...

The case gained national attention when former LAPD Detective Stephanie Lazarus was arrested 23 years after the crime thanks ...

The Missouri Department of Corrections Parole Board has denied parole to serial child sex abuser Pete Newman. His next parole ...

She wasn't arrested until 2009. The state Board of Parole Hearings heard arguments from lawyers on both sides during a hearing Wednesday that lasted about 90 minutes. The three commissioners then ...

Lazarus could still be granted parole, and another hearing is scheduled in the coming months. Gov. Gavin Newsom previously asked the California Board of Parole Hearings to review its plans to set ...