Tien Mo is still awaiting a response to her 2017 clemency application. As previously reported in Truthout, at age 20, she was ...

The first ruling of its kind in the country could give people convicted based on SBS testimony a new shot at freedom.

In late September, Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) stopped Jose Bonilla Lopez, a gardener who lived ...

FCI Dublin was shut down in 2024 after revelations of abuse against prisoners. Residents want it to stay closed.

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Spotlights like this one provide original commentary and analysis on pressing criminal justice issues of the day. You can read them each day in our newsletter, The Daily Appeal. The United States has ...

White voices and victims dominate the genre, which can skew the perception of what constitutes a crime. I called Lowery not long ago to talk about that whiteness, which swamps the genre across books, ...

“[T]he Louisiana State Penitentiary’s delivery of medical care is one of the worst we have ever reviewed.” That’s what two doctors and a nurse practitioner concluded in a report prepared for a trial ...

The latest frontier in drug reform has been the loosening of legal restrictions on psilocybin—the psychoactive compound in “magic mushrooms.” Psilocybin reform is an important development for at least ...

Over the past decade, a growing number of cities, counties and states have recognized the profound injustice of a cash bail system, in which people who can afford bail walk free while those who can’t ...