I am the ONLY female being held in a male prison here in New Jersey all because I am transgender,” Gia Valentina told ...

For almost a decade, the NYPD has battled lawsuits, whistleblowers, and press exposés alleging that the department enforces a “quota” system that requires officers to log a certain number of arrests ...

On a recent Friday morning during arraignments in Rhode Island’s Sixth District Court, a dozen police officers filled the front row of the gallery. As the judge called defendants to the bench, a ...

In 1983, Isadore Rozeman, a jeweler in Shreveport, Louisiana, was shot once in the back of the head in a robbery gone wrong. In 1984, Glenn Ford was convicted of his murder. Ford continually ...

Kenneth Agtuca had been a lifer for most of his life. Imprisoned for all but six months since he was 17, Agtuca was sentenced to life for unlawful gun possession in 1993 under an unforgiving ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged 15 Minnesota residents with conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer after they participated in protests against ICE’s mass deportation campaign in ...

Rachael Rollins, the new district attorney of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, won national attention last summer when she pledged that if elected she would stop prosecuting 15 charges, including ...

Amer Zada was granted parole on Feb. 21, 2018, after serving almost 40 years for sexual abuse and murder, crimes he maintains he did not commit. Now 57, Zada has not been free since he was a teenager.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday alleging that the district’s practice of sending police officers—instead of mental health ...

“There was never a plan to peacefully disperse us,” one protest attendee told The Appeal. “The only plan was to escalate and to treat us with brutal violence.” U.S. Capitol Police officers in riot ...

Pennsylvania requires unanimous approval from a five-member pardon board before people incarcerated on life sentences can ask the governor for clemency.