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.

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Los Angeles County’s top prosecutor said Monday that he had withdrawn a recommendation to reduce the prison terms of Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are serving sentences of life without parole for ...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

Thimmes sends inmates clippings of newspaper and magazine articles about prisons and new laws that would affect them. In the early '90s, Karen Thimmes' aunt would write her letters from Tennessee ...

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 ...

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 ...