New law abolishes life without parole for minors, expands opportunities for early release, and restricts the prosecution of children as adults. Oregon Governor Kate Brown (Photo by Natalie ...

In prisons across America, people are serving decades-long sentences for crimes they didn’t commit. Some face a life sentence or even the death penalty. Yet there is no hope of exoneration because ...

The Washington State Supreme Court will rule on whether Amber Kim, who is trans, can return to a women’s prison.

Todd Sidesinger was taken to Pennsylvania’s York County Prison for unpaid fees. His family says the jail’s medical neglect ...

For U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, the issue of prison re-entry is personal: Both her father and husband went through it themselves. Last week, her husband, Conan Harris, ...

“[T]he Louisiana State Penitentiary’s delivery of medical care is one of the worst we have ever reviewed.” That’s what two doctors and a nurse practitioner concluded in a report prepared for a trial ...

Psychological experts have roundly condemned hypnosis as junk science. But that isn’t stopping Texas from trying to execute Charles Flores, who was sent to death row based on the testimony of one ...

This story is part of the Inside/Out Journalism Project by Type Investigations, which works with incarcerated reporters to produce ambitious, feature-length investigations, with support from the ...

When Addeline Brindle woke up on March 29, 2018, she knew instantly that something was wrong. She had put her 3-month-old baby, Tre’Velle, to sleep in the bed beside her, but now he wasn’t moving.

Josie Duffy Rice is a journalist, writer, podcast host, and consultant whose work is primarily focused on prosecutors, prisons, and other criminal justice issues. Currently, she’s a co-host of What a ...

The gang database in the state gives police increased authority to approach and harass people for virtually no reason at all. The California gang database is an imprecise and sweeping list of everyone ...

Kevin Cooper’s name has been in the papers in recent weeks, as it has been on and off for 35 years. This time, it was because Kim Kardashian visited him in prison, part of her advocacy for those she ...