The first ruling of its kind in the country could give people convicted based on SBS testimony a new shot at freedom.

Tien Mo is still awaiting a response to her 2017 clemency application. As previously reported in Truthout, at age 20, she was ...

In late September, Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) stopped Jose Bonilla Lopez, a gardener who lived ...

FCI Dublin was shut down in 2024 after revelations of abuse against prisoners. Residents want it to stay closed.

White voices and victims dominate the genre, which can skew the perception of what constitutes a crime. I called Lowery not long ago to talk about that whiteness, which swamps the genre across books, ...

It’s been nearly a year since Jennifer Hart drove her family, including at least five of her six adopted children, off a cliff to their deaths on the rocky shores of Mendocino County, California. But ...

The latest frontier in drug reform has been the loosening of legal restrictions on psilocybin—the psychoactive compound in “magic mushrooms.” Psilocybin reform is an important development for at least ...

“A normal heterosexual person would not be so offended […] as to murder,” a prosecutor argued in a capital case in the late 1990s in rural Illinois. “I hope you die in prison like all the rest of your ...

Steven Zick was 16 when he was subjected to “initiation” in the South Bend, Indiana juvenile jail. For Steven, “initiation” meant being beaten so badly by the other kids that he had a seizure. When ...

Welcome to “Ask the Appeal,” the first in an ongoing series of pieces in which we answer common questions about the criminal legal system—and how it intersects with everyday life. For our inaugural ...