A man convicted of a 2008 robbery in Decatur was one of few granted parole following hearings last week as the statewide parole rate — criticized last Tuesday at a Reentry Alabama meeting — continues ...

The ACLU of Alabama’s 2025 priorities include criminal justice reform, voting rights, reproductive justice and protecting ...

VOCAL Executive Director Wanda Miller said the freeze could have had jarring implications for the nonprofit aimed at ...

Oklahoma lawmakers are gearing up to debate a variety of criminal justice bills, including one that would pause the death ...

The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles granted conditional release to 26% of eligible inmates during the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, a significant increase when compared ...

Louisiana parish officials who threatened to arrest and imprison an environmental activist as she attempted to speak during a ...

Republicans and Democrats alike are promoting anti-crime initiatives as a new year of lawmaking gets underway in state capitols. That comes after voters in several states approved ballot measures in ...

Delivering his first address as a reinaugurated president, Donald Trump spoke directly to communities that had historically ...

Lincoln Mabry Jr. has been recommended for parole by the Ohio Parole Board. Mabry, 83, shot and killed "Becky" Kerr on Feb. 15, 1980, in a Perry Township gas station parking lot. A final hearing ...

Attorney General Gentner Drummond has asked the Pardon and Parole Board to reject clemency for Oklahoma death row inmate ...

Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living conditions to a pair of documentary filmmakers ...

It makes the Parole Board release eligible incarcerated individuals without strong, clear evidence that they pose a current and unreasonable risk of breaking the law that can’t be managed with ...