The Inmate Safety Agreement distributed at Red Onion State Prison offers fish fries and movies for prisoners who don’t harm ...

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 ...

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

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.

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New York should enact the Second Look Act, which lets people apply for resentencing after serving 10 years or half of their sentences.

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