The nation’s highest court disagreed. Writing for the six-Justice majority, Justice Byron White granted inmates a few ...

Inmate appealed the Parole Board's decision denying parole and imposing a 72-month future eligibility term. Inmate was serving a life sentence for murder of a police officer. Inmate became eligible ...

A lawsuit filed on behalf of nearly 5,000 inmates -- the killers, robbers and rapists of long ago who today are the veterans of Virginia's prison population -- claims they have been unfairly and ...

What it’s intended to do is to lock up the most dangerous sexual offenders until they are safe to rejoin society,” a state ...

Parole is also referred to as a provisional release from prison. If a prisoner is granted parole, they are released early on the condition that the inmate agrees to abide by certain rules. For example ...

Maryland lawmakers are divided on whether to clear the path for elderly and seriously ill inmates to more easily seek early ...

"Parole became so increasingly political and people were not being evaluated based on how they had rehabilitated themselves," Waters said. " [Dennison] was the chair at a time when everybody believed ...

LOS ANGELES — Patricia Krenwinkel, a former member of the notorious Manson family that carried out a series of grisly killings across Los Angeles, was granted parole, but a final decision on her ...

RAPID CITY - A South Dakota Women's Prison inmate who tried to hire an assassin to kill her boyfriend's ex-wife is leaving prison today, and Theresa Landis-Jacob believes that she and her children ...

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland lawmakers are divided on whether to clear the path for elderly and seriously ill inmates to more easily seek early release from prison. Those backing a set of proposed reforms ...

Lyle and Erik’s life sentences were reevaluated. A judge resentenced them to 50 years to life, so what does this mean for them? The Menendez brothers were convicted in 1996 for the murders of their ...