THROUGH THIS LETTER, SMART IS VOICING HER SUPPORT FOR THE BILL. SHE SAYS IT WOULD MAKE FIRST-DEGREE MURDER INMATES WHO ARE 60 AND OVER WITH AT LEAST 18 YEARS SERVED ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE.

Photo via ThaiRath Recently, one of the inmates involved in the altercation was released from prison and delivered a small letter to the mother, which she said was from her son. The details of the ...

or commits subsequent offenses will no longer be eligible for parole and may return to jail. Over the past five years, the Department of Corrections has received up to 299 sex offender inmates ...

In October, Gascón recommended the brothers be resentenced to 50 years to life, which would make them immediately eligible for parole. Hochman called his predecessor's recommendation a ...

a move that would made them eligible for parole immediately. A judge would have been responsible for following or rejecting the prosecutor’s recommendation. The brothers were convicted in the ...

Los Angeles County’s top prosecutor said Monday that he had withdrawn a recommendation to reduce the prison terms of Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are serving sentences of life without parole for ...

Gascón announced his support for the brothers’ resentencing in October, recommending that the brothers, who are currently serving life sentences without possibility for parole, should be ...

The BPH found that Romine was not suitable for parole and posed a current unreasonable risk of danger to society. The BPH has the option of denying an inmate parole for a period of 15, 10 ...

In the early '90s, Karen Thimmes' aunt would write her letters from Tennessee describing a group of women that would go a nearby prison to chat with the inmates ... to get a parole," Thimmes ...

SHIZUOKA (Kyodo) -- The Vatican has sent a letter to a Japanese man acquitted of a 1966 quadruple murder in a retrial, expressing the pope's joy over the freedom of Iwao Hakamada who spent more ...

A mother who campaigned for a key change in the double jeopardy law so her daughter’s killer could be brought to justice has said “life should mean life” after the Parole Board recommended ...