A federal judge, citing an AJC investigation into juvenile lifers, found Georgia’s parole system may be so hollow it amounts to a constitutional violation. Janice Buttrum, sentenced to life for a ...
The Georgia Parole Board is part of the executive branch of Georgia’s government, and is constitutionally authorized to grant paroles, pardons, reprieves, remissions and commutations to those ...
Janice Buttrum was 17 years old when she was arrested in September 1980 in Whitfield County, Georgia, for murdering a 19-year-old woman with her older abusive husband. Georgia author Jodi McDaniel ...