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The state’s Parole Board is giving second chances to more first-degree murderers who were initially sentenced to life without parole. The Massachusetts Parole Board has OK’d the release of five murder ...

A convicted murderer whose parole in Massachusetts was previously revoked has once again been granted parole. In 2004, a Bristol County Superior Court jury convicted Justin Gaouette, now 44, on ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - A Price Hill woman has been granted parole after serving more than 40 years of her life sentence for killing her husband and burying his body in their backyard. Linda Couch was ...

THE KILLER, AND OUR SERA CONGI JOINS US LIVE FROM THE PAROLE BOARD IN NATICK. SARAH. ED AND MARIA. THE FOUR HOUR HEARING WAS FILLED WITH EMOTIONS. THE CONVICTED KILLER TEARFULLY APOLOGIZING. HANNAH’S ...

A coroner's report found parolee Marchello D. Woodard had a lethal level of cocaine and other substances in his system when a state parole agent fatally shot him in Erie in July. The parole agent, ...

A Massachusetts federal judge on Saturday temporarily blocked the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) planned termination of Family Reunification Parole (FRP) programs for migrants from seven ...

New Jersey's 21 county prosecutors are in solidarity in their efforts to derail a parole reform bill they say will jeopardize public safety and erode victim's rights by its provisions to reduce ...

The state’s parole board has released 39 “emerging adult” murder convicts who were originally sentenced to life without parole, but who later became eligible after a court ruling. The Massachusetts ...

UPDATE: This story was updated Monday with comments from Gov. Phil Murphy’s office. Parole reform legislation introduced this month in the state legislature would emphasize rehabilitation while ...

The Trump administration is ending family reunification parole programs for immigrants from several countries, citing abuse of the humanitarian parole process. The move applies to immigrants from ...