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Why Raise the Age? This reform will decrease crime. Young adults are highly amenable to rehabilitation. Keeping 18 - 20-year-olds in the juvenile system, where they must attend school and participate in rehabilitative programming will lower recidivism.

A Dorchester man accused of strangling his own mother to death while she was on the phone trying to get him help pleaded guilty Monday afternoon.

The state Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments Monday in two cases that ask whether it is constitutional for people between the ages of 18 and 20 — who are sometimes referred to as "emerging adults" — to receive mandatory sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Massachusetts already bans such sentences for those under 18.

Former Boston College student Inyoung You pleaded guilty on Thursday to manslaughter in the suicide of her ...

Former Boston College student Inyoung You pleaded guilty Thursday to manslaughter in the suicide of her boyfriend, Boston College student Alexander Urtula, according to a joint sentencing memorandum.

Former Boston College student Inyoung You pleaded guilty Thursday to manslaughter in the suicide of her boyfriend, Boston College student Alexander Urtula, according to a joint sentencing memorandum.

Inyoung You, the Boston College student accusing of goading her boyfriend to take his own life, was sentenced Thursday to a 2.5-year suspended jail sentence and 10 years of probation after agreeing to plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter.

“I’ve been waiting for a whole 27 years for this,” James Lucien said Tuesday after Judge Robert Ullman cleared the convictions against him in Suffolk...

BOSTON (AP) -- A Massachusetts man who spent over two decades in prison for what a court is calling a wrongful murder and armed robbery conviction has

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man who spent over two decades in prison for what a court is calling a wrongful murder and armed robbery conviction has been released from prison. WCVB-TV reports that James Lucien, 48, was serving a life sentence in connection to the 1994 fatal shooting of Ryan Edwards, 23.