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The last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of California children for an attempted $5 million ransom in 1976 — in what a prosecutor called “the largest mass kidnapping in U.S. history” — is being released by the state’s parole board.

South African former track star Oscar Pistorius has met with the father of Reeva Steenkamp, the woman he shot to death in 2013, as part of his parole process. Steenkamp family lawyer Tania Koen says in a text message to the AP that Pistorius and Barry Steenkamp met face-to-face on June 22 as part of what’s known in South Africa...

New Jersey’s highest court has ordered an octogenarian convicted of murdering a New Jersey state trooper nearly 50 years ago in one of the state’s most infamous crimes released from prison, reversing a parole board’s decision earlier this year.

For the 18th time, parole was denied Friday for Charles “Tex” Watson, who was convicted along with Charles Manson and other Manson followers for the 1969 murders of seven people during a two-day crime spree.

Former Congressman Joe Kennedy II says a “grievous error” has been made after the California parole board recommended Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin be released from prison.

In Boston, two teens — born just eight months apart — received very different sentences despite being convicted of the same crime.

The Supreme Court has made it easier to sentence minors convicted of murder to life in prison without the possibility of parole

A state parole board panel Friday recommended parole for Bruce Davis, a one-time Manson Family follower who was convicted in two killings in 1969.

A Black man whose life sentence for stealing hedge clippers in a home burglary drew scathing criticism from the chief justice of Louisiana’s Supreme Court has been granted parole

California has launched a $30 million program to provide thousands of parolees with community services after they complete their prison sentences or are released months early because of the coronavirus pandemic, officials announced Thursday.

The man who killed John Lennon is up for parole again.

California inmates sentenced to life in prison without parole for crimes they committed as teenagers would get a second chance under a bill lawmakers sent to Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies checked in on seven violent sex offenders on parole. John Cádiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, August 2, 2017.

OJ Simpson was granted parole on his 2008 armed robbery conviction after serving almost 9 years in prison. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Thursday, July 20, 2017.

O.J. Simpson became a legend on the football field and a star on the big screen, but now he’ll plead for release from a Nevada prison after more than eight years. Beverly White reports for the NBC4 News at 11 on Wednesday, July 19, 2017.

In an effort to combat the revolving door cycle of parolees re-offending and returning to prison, California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation works with outside organizations to provide parolees support, training, and job opportunities . Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Sunday, July 2, 2017.

Parole was denied for the 14th time to a Charles Manson follower who was convicted on seven counts of murder in 1971. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 22, 2017.

A man convicted of arranging the 2001 killing of his pregnant girlfriend, who was shot in her Hawthorne apartment, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Accusing Governor Brown of attempting to deceive voters, families of two law enforcement officers slain in the line of duty voiced opposition to the campaign for Prop 57, which would enable some prison inmates convicted of certain crimes to be paroled sooner.

The ex-cons arrested for the slayings of three peace officers this past week had both been imprisoned for crimes involving guns, and had continued to commit violations while on parole.