In memos released this week, Trump’s new attorney general rolled back Biden-era reforms and called for harsher sentences and ...

Louisiana moved detained children from the infamous Angola prison to an adult lockup in Jackson Parish. They say the abuse ...

I was recently moved to a cell with a window after years without one. I never realized how much I’d taken nature for granted.

I was recently moved to a prison cell with a window after years without one. I never realized how much I’d taken the snow for granted.

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg is a Senior Reporter for The Appeal. Based in New Jersey, she writes on prison and jail conditions, wrongful convictions, and the criminalization of disabilities. Elizabeth ...

Christopher William Blackwell, 41, is a Washington-based award-winning journalist currently incarcerated at the Washington Corrections Center. He is serving a 45-year prison sentence for taking ...

A Department of Justice investigation confirmed the GDC hides the number of people killed inside Georgia Prisons.

Media focus on killings obscures many cases of non-fatal force, MindSite News-Medill investigation shows.

The investigation also found that in these crisis situations, police used force against Black people—especially Black men—at ...