Parole

New Jersey’s highest court has ordered an octogenarian convicted of murdering a New Jersey state trooper nearly 50 years ago in one of the state’s most infamous crimes released from prison, reversing a parole board’s decision earlier this year.

Former Congressman Joe Kennedy II says a “grievous error” has been made after the California parole board recommended Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin be released from prison.

U.S. Supreme Court rulings and state laws in recent years have limited or banned sentences of life without the possibility of parole for people who commit crimes as juveniles because of the potential for change

In Boston, two teens — born just eight months apart — received very different sentences despite being convicted of the same crime.

The Supreme Court has made it easier to sentence minors convicted of murder to life in prison without the possibility of parole

A Black man whose life sentence for stealing hedge clippers in a home burglary drew scathing criticism from the chief justice of Louisiana’s Supreme Court has been granted parole