As a person incarcerated in Texas, I know that rotten food and poor medical care are not unique to Delaney Hall.

As former residents of a California prison, we celebrated its closure but abhorred the punitive transfer process.

Katie Smith, whose murder conviction was based on what’s increasingly seen as junk science, is fighting for her freedom.

A federal lawsuit filed by West Virginia prisoners alleges that Aramark Corporation serves inedible, low-quality food in its prison cafeterias to drive customers to its food-for-purchase programs.

The New Jersey department received slavish media praise after it was disbanded and reoriented toward community policing. But behind the reformist mask was an embrace of surveillance and broken windows ...

On the night of March 7, 2018, Francisco Vicente trailed Paul Aaron on the snowy streets of Lowell, Massachusetts, as Aaron approached a taxi driven by a suspected fentanyl supplier being tracked by a ...

In San Francisco, 64-year-old Kenneth Humphrey spent a year in jail, held on a $350,000 bond he could not pay, after being accused of entering a man’s home and stealing $7 and a bottle of cologne. In ...

The Appeal’s investigation found contracts in nearly every state. Find out if your local businesses are working with ICE.

Last week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the state’s mandatory punishment of life without parole for felony murder, ruling that it violates the state’s constitutional prohibition against ...

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 ...

It’s a slate-gray October day in Vermont, and Leon—middle-aged, balding, in work boots and a plaid shirt—sits inside a local community justice center, a low white-clapboard building in the back of a ...

Under District Attorney Steve Wolfson, prosecutors in Las Vegas have led the nation in new death sentences, repeatedly engaged in racist jury selection, and maintained a secret bank account to pay ...