DALLAS — Shuranda Williams spent more than a year in the county jail here, waiting to talk to someone about fighting the murder charge she faces. The police have said she was involved in the 2019 ...

This year, Michigan legislators will consider a ban on life sentences without the possibility of parole for children. As narratives around crime grow more alarmist and separated from the reality that ...

In December, Ethan Crumbley was sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing four students and injuring others at Oxford High School. It could be the last of its kind. Last spring, Michigan ...

In this file photo, traffic leaves the front gate to the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Miss., Nov. 17, 2021. Mississippi and Alabama are among four U.S. states that lead the nation in ...

POLICE AND HAVERHILL ARE ALSO ON SCENE. WE WILL BE BRINGING YOU UPDATES AS SOON AS WE GET THEM. MIKE: A GROUP OF LAWMAKERS IN CONCORD IS MAKING A PUSH TO END LIFE SENTENCES IN PRISON. SEVERAL BILLS ...

Geneva Cooley, 72, walks out the main gates to the Julia Tutwiler Prison in October 2019 after getting released from a life sentence without parole for carrying a sock full of heroin in 2002. Cooley ...

This investigation was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, The Dallas Morning News and NBC5. Shuranda Williams ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would not place new restrictions on sentences of life without the possibility of parole for juvenile offenders, siding with the state of Mississippi ...

A Massachusetts Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday that it's unconstitutional to automatically sentence people under the age of 21 to life in prison without the possibility of parole. For the past ...

No child should be sentenced to life in prison without parole even if they commit horrendous crimes. Why? Because, as former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy once noted, “any parent knows” ...