Women on probation, parole need permission
(NewsNation) — Two years after the Supreme Court waived the constitutional right to an abortion, more than 80% of women on probation or parole who are seeking abortions must first ask …
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Maryland just issued 175,000 pot pardons. Can Canada do the same?
As It Happens6:32Maryland just issued 175,000 pot pardons. The attorney general says it’s a matter of racial justice Maryland’s governor issued 175,000 pardons for marijuana convictions in one fell swoop …
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, at centre of controversial murder conviction, gets parole hearing
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent most of his life in prison since his conviction in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota, has a parole …
Michigan parents of teen school shooter sentenced to at least 10 years for manslaughter
The mother and father of a Michigan teen who shot and killed four classmates were each sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison on Tuesday after a jury convicted …
Why some aging spies won’t walk out of U.S. prisons, long after the Cold War
Aldrich Ames was done selling secrets, but the unravelling of his treachery had just begun. On Feb. 21, 1994, the bespectacled, Jaguar-driving, Central Intelligence Agency lifer, with a cash-purchased home in a Washington …
What’s in the $118B U.S. Senate deal to address migrant backlog at southern border?
Senators in Washington, D.C, have come out with a carefully negotiated $118 billion US compromise that pairs tens of billions of dollars in wartime aid for Ukraine with new border …
Oscar Pistorius released from prison on parole, South Africa’s corrections department says
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been released from prison on parole and is now at home, South Africa’s Department of Corrections said Friday. The department gave no more details …
Transgender 16-year-old Brianna Ghey murdered by two teens, British court rules
A boy and a girl were found guilty Wednesday of murdering a transgender teenager in northwest England earlier this year, in a “frenzied and ferocious” knife attack that was described …
South African ‘Blade Runner’ Pistorius to leave jail on parole
Former aralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, convicted of killing his girlfriend over a decade, is to be released on parole on 5 January, the South African prison service announced on Friday. …
Former Olympian Oscar Pistorius granted parole on murder conviction
Double-amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was granted parole Friday, 10 years after shooting his girlfriend through a bathroom door at his home in South Africa in a killing that jolted …