John Serba is a freelance writer and film critic based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

California over the past dozen years enacted a series of criminal justice laws that were meant to give more people an opportunity to be resentenced and thin out the state’s severely overcrowded ...

California prison officials released the audio recordings from Erik and Lyle Menendez's parole hearings. In August, the state officials denied the Menendez brothers' first attempt at parole but ...