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 ...

Former New York Governor and NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo speaks at West Side Institutional Synagogue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Stephen Yang The Issue: David McClary facing a Parole ...

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 ...

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 ...

I am never sure what kind of response my writing will receive, or what kind of audience it will reach. To my surprise, a column I wrote in April for USA TODAY reached an audience of inmates in America ...

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 ...

I write as a law professor specializing in criminal law to commend the New York State Board of Parole for granting parole to David Gilbert ("70s radical David Gilbert granted parole in Brink’s robbery ...

The Times Union Editorial Board is right on the mark ("Parole needs reform," March 25). As a policymaker, I’ve learned about parole injustice through my constituents. The story of one of them ...

Attorneys for a 75-year-old man still imprisoned on parole violations despite being found not guilty of killing a Philadelphia police officer say the prosecutor in the case went out of his way to prod ...