Former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke, who was convicted in a federal bribery case, has requested his sentence be commuted. If his petition is granted, that would allow him to be released from prison sooner.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Jamie Silvonek, who admitted helping her soldier boyfriend murder her mother when she was 14, is ...

One of the men who murdered gay college student Matthew Shepard in 1998 was denied a commutation of his sentence this week, the Wyoming Board of Parole has confirmed. Russell Henderson, who along with ...

President Joe Biden announced Thursday he is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people who were placed on home confinement during the COVID pandemic and pardoning 39 others convicted of ...

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board (PPB) denied the commutation request of former pharmacist Jerome Ersland Monday afternoon. Ersland, now 72, sought an early release from his life sentence for the ...

FLINT, MI -- Nearly 40 years after Linda J. Nunn was convicted of fatally shooting a federal bank examiner during a sex-for-money scheme in Flint, she’s asking Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to commute her ...