BOSTON - State lawmakers heard virtual testimony from more than two dozen incarcerated persons from facilities across the state Tuesday after opening the floor to inmates and allowing them to speak in ...

Hamilton Correctional Institution, a state-run prison. (File shot via Florida Department of Corrections) Florida does not offer parole for most inmates incarcerated in its correctional facilities. But ...

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 ...

After a career as a probation and parole officer, member and then chairman of the Board of Parole, Robert Dennison now advocates for inmates who meet his criteria for reentry into a society they left ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. YONKERS, N.Y. (PIX11) — If a person older ...

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 ...

Arkansas’s prison population grew faster than the population itself over the last 15 years, even as overall crime has ...

Hundreds of inmates in Maryland’s local jails never receive a parole hearing before they are released, according to officials. Out of roughly 2,200 scheduled parole hearings last year, about one-third ...

Editor's note: James Keown's name was misspelled in an earlier version of this story. BOSTON - State lawmakers heard virtual testimony from more than two dozen incarcerated persons from facilities ...

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 argue ...