Paroling rates have risen in Massachusetts, and the new chair of the Parole Board doesn't see the increase as a negative.

A Massachusetts man who killed three children and their mother by setting fire to an apartment building was denied parole ...

Weeks after the husband of a former Boston city councilor was given parole, another man convicted in the same killing also has been approved for release. When Jason Robinson was 19, he shot and killed ...

Despite ongoing struggles with substance use, the Massachusetts Parole Board is prepared to give him another chance.

At the age of 22, Niemic killed a man named Michael Correia on Oct. 20, 2010. Niemic had been dating a woman during the ...

Massachusetts parole officers are charged with monitoring prisoners upon release, and bringing into custody those who don't abide by the conditions of their freedom. But the latest report from the ...

A convicted murderer whose parole in Massachusetts was previously revoked has once again been granted parole. In 2004, a Bristol County Superior Court jury convicted Justin Gaouette, now 44, on ...

FRAMINGHAM — On Aug. 10, 1996, 17-year-old Kimberly Jane Bolton was killed by a man who tried to rape her in downtown Framingham. That man, Damien Lockhart, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and ...

Three state prisoners are claiming in a state lawsuit that the Massachusetts Parole Board has discriminated against them because of their mental health disabilities, and that the board's actions have ...

A man who was convicted of killing his girlfriend — a mother of four — after they celebrated Valentine’s Day at a local bar is set to be released from prison. The Massachusetts Parole Board has ...

BOSTON — The highest court in Massachusetts ruled Thursday to raise from 18 to 21 the minimum age at which a person can be sentenced to mandatory life without parole — a narrow 4-3 ruling that ...