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

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.

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, ...

A Texas judge approved a Batson motion, then overruled it. But a transcript shows that a Black man was struck unfairly, the attorney said. In early 2018, employees at a Prada store in The Galleria ...

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 ...

Genovese, who worked on both the New Jersey and New Mexico campaigns and now researches and teaches about immigration detention, said ending local and state cooperation with ICE is an important way of ...

In September 2018, President Trump stood in front of 44 sheriffs as he began another diatribe against the New York Times and other media outlets that had published stories criticizing his ...

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 ...

This commentary is part of The Appeal’s collection of opinion and analysis. In Los Angeles, residents of historically Black and Latinx neighborhoods are being pushed out of their homes as the ...