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 ...

Dear editor, Thank you for publicizing the parole board hearing for Robert Shippmann, the man who murdered my daughter, Juli Mathis Shippmann (“Napa killer denied parole,” Oct. 23.) Several letters ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week, the friends and family of Kali Manley started writing letters opposing the parole of her killer, David Alvarez, after serving 25 years of his sentence. Alvarez killed Kali on Dec. 20, 1998, ...

Illinois doesn’t allow inmates sentenced after 1978 to apply for parole. This, combined with “tough on crime” sentencing, has grown the state’s prison population. Thousands of people will spend the ...

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 ...