In a ruling earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton blasted the federal prison agency for a pattern of medical ...

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 ...

This story was co-published with Truthout. In late March, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court issued a momentous ruling overturning mandatory life sentences for people convicted of felony murder, also known ...

Through fees and forced labor, sheriffs typically exacerbate the financial costs of incarceration, but they could also mitigate them. Photo illustration by Elizabeth Brown. Photo from Getty Images.

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 ...

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, ...

Today, The Appeal published Locked In, Priced Out, a project that includes a first-of-its-kind database of prison commissary lists from 46 states. This project also examines the availability, prices, ...

This article includes photographs that some readers may find disturbing. On April 12, 2015, Freddie Carlos Gray Jr. was arrested in the Gilmor Homes housing development in West Baltimore by three ...

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 ...

On Jan. 9, Mia Davis, a 36-year-old Black woman from Tampa, stood in the courtroom of Nick Nazaretian, a judge in Florida’s 13th Judicial Circuit. Her husband Ray sat in the gallery of the Division K ...

“A normal heterosexual person would not be so offended […] as to murder,” a prosecutor argued in a capital case in the late 1990s in rural Illinois. “I hope you die in prison like all the rest of your ...