PROVIDENCE – The state Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a state law intended to give people who commit crimes in their youth a chance to win parole after they serve 20 years. The high court ruled in ...

Last year, Alabama’s top prosecutor said the parole system is working, and “dangerous offenders are largely the only ones left behind bars.” Was he right? Thousands of people in Alabama lockups are ...

After attending a party more than 30 years ago, a Massachusetts man was found guilty of the murder of two men who had been killed by more than a dozen gunshots. But Michael Payne, 52, continues to ...