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

A judge has denied an Alabama woman’s claim that she acted in self-defense under the state’s Stand Your Ground law when she killed a man in her home in January 2018. Now, Brittany Smith will most ...

In October 2014, Matt Lauzon walked into the police station in his hometown of Biddeford, Maine, with a long-held secret. He was determined, finally, to tell investigators that one of their officers ...

About a year ago, a close friend, Garrett Felber, told me about a project close to his heart—the campaign to Free the Mississippi Five (MS5). The MS5 are the last remaining women in Mississippi ...

This story was co-published with Truthout. On March 28, 18-year-old University of Southern California student Tucker Collins documented a protest outside the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center.

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 ...

Lawmakers in a handful of states have begun taking aim at transgender people in prison with extreme measures that seek to infringe on the rights of an especially vulnerable segment of the population.

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 ...

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 ...

This story was co-published with Truthout. As CRC emptied out, one of us stayed behind while the other was transferred to another prison. From both sides of the closure process, we have seen the same ...

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 ...

Solitary confinement in prison is incredibly harmful. Those in favor argue that it reduces violence and keeps prison officials safe. Instead, research points strongly to the opposite conclusion: that ...