Washington previously sued GEO Group for allegedly violating the state minimum wage law by paying detainee workers $1 a day.

Maria Montalvo was convicted of her children's murders in 1996. Her attorneys say it was based on now-discredited forensic testimony.

Genovese, who worked on both the New Jersey and New Mexico campaigns and now researches and teaches about immigration ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has opened an internal affairs investigation into an Aug. 2 use-of-force incident at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF), ...

America’s criminal system has become one of the country’s largest mental health service providers, leaving the nation’s jails and prisons overfilled with people experiencing severe mental disorders, ...

The Appeal has created the first national database of prison commissary lists. Using the tool below, you can access full lists from the vast majority of U.S. states and see prices for many products ...

On July 19, 2018, Arthur called his sister and told her he planned to end his life. At the time he was struggling to find work, he told The Appeal, and “everything was really piling up.” “Because of ...

In 2006, Ann Colomb and her three sons were convicted of running one of the largest crack cocaine distribution rings in Louisiana. Federal prosecutors said that, over the course of a decade, the ...

Yang Song fell four stories onto a sidewalk in Flushing, Queens on the night of November 25th. An officer with the New York City Police Department accompanied her, unconscious, to New York ...

On May 8, a group of prisoners at the Louisiana State Penitentiary refused to perform the field labor they are compelled to do for virtually no pay. The prison, commonly known as Angola, stands on the ...

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 ...