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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Cory Franklin has expertise in intensive care but not the legal or criminal fields. His opinion in his recent op-ed has a glaring omission (“Should former Manson family member Leslie Van Houten be ...

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 ...

The New York State Parole Board granted parole to the murderer of Police Officer George Werdann (“Another cop killer out,” July 21). Does the board really believe that time heals all wounds? If so, it ...

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To the Editor: I’ve noticed during the last few years that the New Hampshire Department of Corrections and the New Hampshire media use the term “probationer” or “on probation” to describe repeat ...

To the editor - State Rep. Mary Helen Roberts, D-21st District, has sponsored a bill that would allow felons given long sentences for crimes committed before they were 18 to petition for parole after ...

Our corrupt president Trump is busily pardoning groveling criminals who have been convicted of grave wrongdoing. In one case, Trump openly accepted a bribe from the mother of an admitted tax fraud.

FIRST ON FOX: Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are seeking answers from the Biden administration over what they say is a "flagrant abuse" of parole authorities to release hundreds of ...

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