Delaware has reformed its system that grants release based upon rehabilitation. People imprisoned say its spurring new hope behind the walls.

In simple terms, a commutation reduces a criminal penalty. This may include shortening a prison sentence or replacing a death sentence with life imprisonment. Unlike a pardon, which forgives a crime ...

Earlier this month, the Connecticut Board of Pardons and Paroles indefinitely suspended commutation, the process through which incarcerated individuals apply to have their sentences reconsidered.

Jamie Silvonek, who admitted helping her soldier boyfriend murder her mother when she was 14, is hoping to beat the odds and have her 35-years-to-life sentence changed to a term that would allow ...

Prosecutors have until the end of the workday Wednesday to file their response to death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies’s request for a commutation hearing. Menzies, 67, is scheduled to be executed by ...

From left: Lt. Gov. Austin Davis (Commonwealth Media Services); Gail Stallworth (courtesy of Cornelius Harp); then-Attorney General Josh Shapiro at a Board of Pardons meeting (via YouTube). Gail ...

Connecticut has paused granting prison commutations in the wake of an uproar over a drastic rise in the number of inmates having their sentences reduced, the governor announced Thursday. Conservative ...

(WHTM) — Advocates say there are more than 5,000 inmates serving life sentences in Pennsylvania, and not enough of them are getting second chances. The Let’s Get Free Initiative sent a petition with ...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Gov. Dennis Daugaard has issued an executive order saying he will perform an "independent review" of all petitions for pardons or sentence reductions, shortly after his predecessor ...

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