Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity, Valena Beety examines how women and queer ...

The Washington State Supreme Court will rule on whether Amber Kim, who is trans, can return to a women’s prison.

A new report de-anonymizes hundreds of officers in the city and shows more than 1,800 cops have had complaints filed about them. The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland published a report today ...

In prisons across America, people are serving decades-long sentences for crimes they didn’t commit. Some face a life sentence or even the death penalty. Yet there is no hope of exoneration because ...

New law abolishes life without parole for minors, expands opportunities for early release, and restricts the prosecution of children as adults. Oregon Governor Kate Brown (Photo by Natalie ...

At the end of 2018, more than 5,400 people in Pennsylvania were serving life without the possibility of parole. Some advocates refer to this sentence as death by incarceration. On Thursday, the Board ...

For U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, the issue of prison re-entry is personal: Both her father and husband went through it themselves. Last week, her husband, Conan Harris, ...

Three days after Todd Sidesinger was released from the hospital for heart failure in February 2024, he was taken to jail for unpaid court costs and fees, totaling about $1,500. Within 48 hours, he ...

“Left Behind,” a collaboration between The Appeal and Oregon Justice Resource Center, presents firsthand accounts of growing up in prison from individuals sentenced as children to 25 years-to-life.

This article is being co-published with The Imprint, a national nonprofit news outlet covering child welfare and youth justice. Read Part One of the series here. There was, understandably, no sleeping ...

How a scrappy group of parents played a key but lesser-known role in the pending closure of the Division of Juvenile Justice A Books Not Bars demonstration pushes for closing the N.A. Chaderjian Youth ...

At least 32 people died in ICE jails in 2025, and six more have already died in ICE custody this year. All eyes are on the Trump administration’s brutal “immigration enforcement” operation in ...