Shocked family members of a slain 87-year-old woman, who was strangled to death during a break-in, were blindsided when they found out in the Herald that her murderer was granted parole. Roxbury’s ...

A Massachusetts man serving a life sentence after being convicted of killing a man during a robbery has been denied parole. Anthony Jessup had his initial parole hearing March 3, and on Wednesday the ...

More than four decades after Massachusetts State Police Trooper George Hanna was shot and killed in the line of duty, his ...

Conor McGill is excited to return home and report for CBS News Sacramento, covering El Dorado and Placer counties. For Conor, this is more than just the next step in his career. It's a true homecoming ...

The man who was given a life sentence for causing the 1993 Missouri flood has a parole hearing this week. James Robert Scott, ...

A convicted murderer who killed a bouncer at a city nightclub is being released from prison. The Massachusetts Parole Board ...

Andrew Hundley became the first juvenile lifer paroled in Louisiana and started Louisiana Parole Project to aid parolees with legal support, housing, and reentry services, achieving success in ...

Laura Kuhl is a content editor, writer and social media manager with ten years of experience in the legal, finance, and insurance fields. She started her career as a movie review writer in Wilmington, ...

Heavy caseloads, job stress, and biases can strain relations between parole and probation officers and their clients, upping offenders’ likelihood of landing back behind bars. On a more hopeful note, ...

Nick Mireles is a writer on the central coast of California. He has a knack for film, music, and Dungeons and Dragons. When he’s not writing, he tries to spend his days reading, surfing, and camping ...

California’s crime rate began a historic plunge in the early 1990s and has fallen ever since, except for some small spikes, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet it took more than a decade until ...

Advocates of criminal justice reform (just about everybody these days) are understandably pleased that the ultimate penalty of death is dying out, so to speak, with Colorado this year joining the list ...