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 wish to elaborate on the Aug. 9 article "A chance at redemption?" It is about Senate Bill 256, a new law that makes my Aunt Margaret Douglas' killer Gavon Ramsay eligible for parole, and I am quoted ...

In Tuesday’s Post-Standard were two letters concerning parole reform for convicted murderers that caught my attention (”Retired judge: NY parole ‘reforms’ would set free dangerous criminals,” Feb. 23, ...

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 ...

It’s no surprise that we continue to see the same tired arguments, cherry-picked stories and fear-mongering tactics used every time a criminal legal reform emerges. We cannot give in to fear above ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Civil-rights advocates say the Ohio Parole Board unfairly allows confidential letters written by victims’ family members to play a role in the panel’s decisions on whether to grant ...

You might pass her in the produce aisle at a supermarket in Silver Lake. Or bump into her at a crosswalk in West Hollywood. Or even run into her at a 12-step meeting in downtown LA. But chances are, ...

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 ...