parole

(Newser) - The man who tried to assassinate George Wallace in 1972 walked free from prison today after serving 35 years of his 53-year sentence. Arthur Bremer opened fire on the Alabama governor as he campaigned for president in Maryland, leaving him paralyzed. Before he died in 1998, the onetime segregationist wrote...

(Newser) - A Connecticut parole chief is under fire for releasing a burglar who’s now suspected of kidnapping and raping two sisters before murdering them, along with their mother. But Robert Farr is standing by his decision, claiming the board was missing facts at the time of the parole—and its...