Just a year ago, Martín Soto was making breakfast at home with his wife, Gabriela, while their daughter got ready for her ...

As a person incarcerated in Texas, I know that rotten food and poor medical care are not unique to Delaney Hall.

An Illinois State Police database available online listed personal information, including Social Security numbers.

Terence Richardson and Ferrone Claiborne are coming home after President Joe Biden granted them clemency. The pair spent decades in prison despite being found not guilty of the 1998 murder of a ...

As former residents of a California prison, we celebrated its closure but abhorred the punitive transfer process.

Pennsylvania requires unanimous approval from a five-member pardon board before people incarcerated on life sentences can ask the governor for clemency. Sheena King, 53, has been incarcerated since ...

This story was published in partnership with Truthout. In June, the Washington State Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether 38-year-old Amber Kim could be transferred from a men’s prison to the ...

Psychological experts have roundly condemned hypnosis as junk science. But that isn’t stopping Texas from trying to execute Charles Flores, who was sent to death row based on the testimony of one ...

The Appeal’s investigation found contracts in nearly every state and the District of Columbia. Find out if your local businesses are working with ICE.

In the epicenter of the nation’s novel coronavirus outbreak, the situation is dire for transgender Black and Latinx sex workers. “We’re scared, but we know no one cares about us,” said TS Candii, a ...

Southern Poverty Law Center and Juvenile Law Center asked a federal court today to strike down Alabama’s sex offender registry requirements for young people who were convicted in adult court. The ...

The state’s “theft of leased property” statute allows prosecutors to seek felony charges for Pennsylvanians who miss payments on rental items. On April 30, Nicolas Harmony spent the night in jail in ...