Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo illustration by Getty Images. Montana’s parole system isn’t just outdated; it’s medieval. You can practically hear the ...

A public defender, victim’s advocate and former inmate are part of an effort to improve Missouri’s parole system. The rules haven't been updated since 2017, and advocates say the burdens placed on ...

Around half of all new admissions to Missouri's prisons come from people who have violated their probation or parole. Those cases sent more than 5,000 Missourians back to prison last year — and a lack ...

Less than 15 percent of parole-eligible prisoners serving life sentences in Maryland have been released since 2015. With advocates across the state clamoring for parole reform, Maryland’s legislature ...

A new study finds a range of systemic problems in Maryland’s parole system, which is rife with extensive delays and leaves most parole-eligible prisoners serving life sentences to languish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A former California parole agent is raising alarms about what he claims is dangerously lax oversight of parolees under the state's ...

I visited my first jail in 1970, when I was 16. I had a high school sociology teacher who talked about the disparity of bail and how people were being held simply because they couldn’t afford to pay ...

Fred and Marilyn Wortman live in Lake County, Tennessee. Fred is retiring from an accounting career and Marilyn from a nursing career. Editor's note: The writers of this guest essay have a son who is ...