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.

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

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 ...

This article was co-published with Truthout. For two years, I walked the lower yard track at San Quentin State Prison, watching construction crews tear down an old furniture factory to build a $239 ...

Newsrooms and voters tend to overlook judicial elections—despite the tremendous power judges hold in the criminal legal system. Los Angeles elected its first Black public defender, Holly Hancock, as a ...

Johnny Perez draws on the wisdom of thirteen years of direct involvement with the criminal justice system in his work as the Director of the U.S. Prisons Program for the National Religious Campaign ...

State Senator Julia Salazar argues in a Q&A that policing reforms “have failed” and that funds should be reinvested into other services; she also lays out bills she is supporting to improve ...

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, ...

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for the celebrities detained there, but hundreds of other people at the jail face inhumane conditions. The Metropolitan Detention Center in ...