ATLANTA - Georgia is pioneering a strategy to eliminate parole offices, an effort officials say allows the officers to spend more time working with people in the community and also saves money.

...barred and that the "new evidence" does not establish a miscarriage of justice.Kammer has also asked the state Board of Pardons and Paroles for a new hearing and has filed a motion to stay the execution with the U.S. Supreme Court. He and other...

...after his arrest.Lebis' parole officer sent him back to prison for filing a false police report, and the state Board of Pardons and Paroles released him again in May.Defense lawyer Lee Sexton, who once represented Lebis, said the light sentence...

...Dr. Thomas Sachy wrote in an affidavit.Hill's defense plans to submit the doctors' statements to the state Board of Pardons and Paroles when it requests a new clemency hearing, as well as to a state court that has previously declined to overturn...

...Georgia Department of Be havioral Health and De vel op mental Disabilities. Buckner, who was serving on the state Board of Pardons and Paroles, took over the position Nov. 9, the day after Holder's death.Buckner said she was already set to retire...

A Georgia death row inmate who is scheduled to be executed this month was denied clemency Monday by the State Board of Pardons and Paroles. According to a press release from the board, clemency was denied for Andrew DeYoung who is scheduled to...

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is awaiting autopsy results in this week's death of a YDC inmate.

ATLANTA - Despite the back-slapping and congratulations about unanimous support in the General Assembly for revision to the criminal justice code, the new legislation awaiting the governor's signature has no impact on the tens of thousands of Georgians behind bars.

...man convicted of murder for a 1992 slaying is scheduled for parole Monday.According to a notice from the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, Henry Coleman, 53, will return to Burke County once released.Coleman was sentenced to life in prison...

...167 use a cane, crutch or walker. They'll be moved to other already crowded prisons.Officials with the state board of Pardons and Parole - who decide on medical reprieve applications - say they won't release someone who still poses a threat...