On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge John Corbett O’Meara ordered an end to life-without-parole sentencing for juveniles in the state of Michigan. The order comes a year after the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Maryland doesn’t have mandatory life-without-parole sentences, but critics note that no juvenile serving a life sentence in Maryland has been paroled in the last two decades. The post 300 juveniles ...

VICTORY: Federal Judge strikes down Michigan parole statute condemning youthful offenders to life in prison without the possibility of parole. In February of 2012, the American Civil Liberties Union ...

Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that sentencing juveniles to mandatory life in prison for crimes like aggravated first-degree murder is tantamount to cruel and unusual punishment, and thus a ...

Mario Monteiro, namesake of “Mario’s Law,” is advocating for Representative Julie Casimiro’s bill, which comes after Massachusetts and Hawaii took similar steps PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island would ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. U.S. Supreme Court justices acted wisely this week when they ruled that juvenile criminal offenders ...

Roy Snell was just 18 when he killed Richard Atwood. He wasn’t sentenced until his late 50s.