Prison abolitionist art creates a future to briefly live in, and from that place, turn and look at our present.

Experts say “investigative hypnosis” often leads to false testimony, but Texas courts have refused to hear Charles Flores’s ...

Prison abolitionist art creates a future to briefly live in, and from that place, turn and look at our present.

This story was co-published with Truthout. “Why are they doing women like this? Are we the weaker sex?” Mishunda Davis told Truthout in a call from Logan Correctional Center, Illinois’s largest ...

At least three women made police reports about Girls Do Porn in 2015, but recruiters continued to exploit women until the FBI stepped in last month. On Oct. 10, the operators of popular pornography ...

After decades in prison, two men found not guilty of murdering a police officer but sentenced to life anyway are coming home. On Jan. 17, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 ...

The carceral system fails to heal victims and perpetuates trauma by caging human beings. It‘s time to try something else. In 2015, I was raped at Baylor University by someone I knew and trusted. In ...

More than 5,400 people in the state are sentenced to life without parole. This month, The Appeal went inside one prison that helps provide end-of-life care for men. An elderly man sits in wheelchair ...

The jail in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has suffered a string of fatalities in recent years. But last month residents learned that the death toll was even higher than they knew. According to data ...

Our criminal justice system is broken. America has the highest incarceration rate in the world with 2.2 million people in its prisons and jails. The quality of justice that a person receives more ...

In the early 2000s, at the tail end of an era defined by mass incarceration and extreme sentencing, researchers started taking a closer look at the state of U.S. prisons, where the pendulum had long ...

As of Thursday afternoon, more than 180,000 Los Angeles residents have been ordered to evacuate as deadly fires ravage the city. Hurricane-force winds reaching up to 100 miles per hour whipped the ...