early release

UK’s new left-wing govt is releasing the first of thousands of prisoners, convicts saying they would be voting Labour after gaining liberty.

Tewkunzi Green was released from prison 22 years early after murdering Montral Fleming in Peoria in 2007 when Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed a “commutation of sentencing order.” Fleming’s family says they were not notified of her prison release through the state, but instead through Facebook. Multiple families have had similar experiences, and Illinois Senate Republicans are asking why.

Abdalraouf Abdallah, who was friends with Salman Abedi and was communicating with him in the months leading up to the Manchester Arena terror attack, is due to be released from prison this week.

Police visited Khairi Saadallah the day before he committed a stabbing attack which authorities labelled as terror, killing three and seriously injuring three others.

The coronavirus pandemic has seriously impacted the process for combating California wildfires in forcing the release hundreds of inmates who are part of the state’s firefighting program.

Dena Love is expressing outrage that a California prison has released the inmate who killed her brother, Kevin “John” Ruska Jr., as part of a widespread release of criminals due to coronavirus fears.

California officials said almost 18,000 inmates in state prisons are being released because of the coronavirus.

A convicted rapist who viciously beat and raped a 63-year-old woman is set to be released by the Parole Board after serving just seven years in prison. Wendell Baker, the Jamaican born rapist, was sentenced to life in prison after

A pair of gang members — one of whom was out on the streets because of Jerry Brown’s sentencing reform to allow “non-violent” offenders to be released early from state prison to county supervision — were arrested in the early morning hours last Friday.

A prisoner paroled early due to California’s new early release law allegedly killed his cousin, stole a car on Sunday and Monday, and later opened fire on three police officers, wounding one and killing another.

Whittier Police Chief Jeff Piper has blamed Gov. Jerry Brown’s controversial early prison release program for the murder of one of his officers on Monday.

Governor Jerry Brown has placed before voters this November a ballot measure deceptively titled the “Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016” – when it might be more accurately dubbed the “Let Violent Criminals Out Of Prison Early Act of 2016.”

The number of Americans dying by drug-overdose has reached a record high since 2009, while tens of thousands of convicted drug-traffickers are getting early releases from federal prisons. In 2014 alone, a total of 47,055 deaths – a rate of

On Wednesday, California Gov. Jerry Brown proposed a ballot initiative for November that would allow prison inmates convicted of nonviolent offenses to accumulate credits that would enable them to be eligible for early release.

Writing in the Washington Post, President Obama promises to ban the use of solitary confinement for juvenile and low-level offenders in federal prisons and urges Americans to reconsider the method that “triggers depression” among inmates. “It has been linked to depression, alienation,

Roughly 1 in 9 black children you pass on the street has or has had a parent in prison, according to a recent study by Maryland-based research firm Child Trends.

In a controversial vote Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission approved a plan to “Ensuring Just, Reasonable, & Fair Rates for Inmate Calling” and would place a cap on the amount of money that communications companies charge convicts to make phone calls in jails and prisons across the country.

Border State Sheriffs are responding to a report that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is set to engage in the largest one-time release of federal prisoners. 6,000 inmates will receive early release, 2,000 of which are “foreign citizens” who officials claim “will be quickly deported.” The release is set to occur between October 30th and November 2nd.