Decades of evidence proves that a functional parole system makes us all safer. Human beings don’t function well without hope, and the hope of parole incentivizes good behavior and reformation, ...

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 ...

Maryland leaders wanting to address community concerns about rising crime should reform the state’s parole system. For too long, instead of providing incentives for good behavior and rehabilitation ...

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 ...

President Joe Biden’s expanded parole system has drawn over a million migrants alone to the U.S. since January 2023, federal data shows. Yet a major flaw has already been found within the ...

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. (Baxter Bulletin) - Danny Wayne Bobbitt, who last month led police on multiple high-speed pursuits after allegedly stealing three cars over a 12-hour period,was out on parole at ...

A former California parole agent is raising alarms about what he claims is dangerously lax oversight of parolees under the state’s corrections system — warning the lack of monitoring could put the ...

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 ...