A lawsuit in Illinois charges that prisons blocking videophone capabilities violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Lisa Jo Chamberlin’s co-defendant confessed to coercing her into their crime. Will that be enough to stop her execution?

On September 30, the state of Tennessee tried to murder Pike. Instead, it put her through an hour and a half of difficulty ...

Let’s build a world in which the torture of Christa Pike — or anyone — is unthinkable.

After a jury convicted Jamal Trulove, then 25, of first degree murder in February 2010, then-San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris praised the “brave witness who stepped forward from the crowd ...

“They were destroying me,” said one person placed in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s “Program for the Aggressive Mentally Ill Offender.” In the nine months after Edee Davis arrived at the ...

In the early ‘90s, Oklahoma prosecutors claimed Littlejohn and another man had killed someone, even though the victim was shot with a single bullet. A state board has recommended the governor spare ...

CoreCivic’s revenue from contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) skyrocketed in 2025, but some participants on today’s quarterly earnings call expressed concerns that ICE had not ...

Last year, on the day before Christmas, a 45-year-old man with cancer was lying on a mattress on the floor of an Illinois prison, with feces on his hands, according to a report filed in federal court ...

This story is published in partnership with Truthout. For decades, corporate media and elected officials have shown little interest in reporting by incarcerated individuals on the unchecked inhumane ...

Lawsuits from Joliet Police Department officers are among at least 12 current federal complaints against the agency. The men say their civil rights lawsuits are part of a decades-long history of ...

When Hurricane Helene made landfall last week, thousands of incarcerated people were in its pathway as it pummeled parts of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Florida. As The Appeal has ...