Capital murder conviction brings life without parole

Capital murder conviction brings life without parole

NEW ALBANY —- Wednesday afternoon, June 11, in Union County Circuit Court, a New Albany man was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of capital murder in connection with the death of an infant in 2023, sources said…

Lois Ahrens: Massachusetts’ cruelty: life without the possibility of parole

Testimony I submitted to the Massachusetts Joint Committee on the Judiciary, June 3, 2025 in support of H.2052/S.1178: An Act to Reduce Mass Incarceration. Twenty-five years ago, when I began the Real Cost of Prisons Project, I naively thought if people understood the real costs of mass incarceration to people imprisoned, their loved ones and their communities and the hundreds of millions of dollars we pay yearly to keep people caged, they would…