Parole

The Sentencing Project’s Locked Out 2024 report estimates that 1.7% of Missourians over 18 can’t vote because they have felony convictions. That rate is more than double for Black Missourians. Missouri has the 14th-highest disenfranchisement rate in the country.

Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday signed into law a measure that overhauls the state’s mandatory supervised release program, formerly known as parole. It aims to give former inmates a better chance to succeed outside of prison.

Terrell Robinson has served 12 years in prison for violations he said were never even explained to him.

The Illinois Prisoner Review Board granted parole to Paula Sims after three hours of testimony and discussion. Sims was convicted of first-degree murder in 1990.

A U.S. District Court recently ruled that the Missouri Parole Board had been violating the U.S. and Missouri Constitutions in its handling of cases…

Missouri will have to reform its parole policies after a federal judge ruled in favor of thousands of current and former parolees who sued the state,...

Thousands of people on parole in Missouri who were incarcerated for violating their parole may now be eligible for relief in a class action lawsuit...

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 22, 2013: It was a routine murder in the Metro East, hardly a “Stop the Presses!” caliber story…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 14, 2012 - A few weeks back, I wrote a column in which I suggested that our newly emergent crime…

A special task force is recommending changes to how Missouri handles people who are on parole or probation.The recommendations presented Wednesday to an…