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 granted.

A Department of Justice investigation confirmed the GDC hides the number of people killed inside Georgia Prisons.

President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of Terence Richardson and Ferrone Claiborne—two men sentenced to life despite ...

The investigation also found that in these crisis situations, police used force against Black people—especially Black men—at ...

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

Media focus on killings obscures many cases of non-fatal force, MindSite News-Medill investigation shows.

As of Thursday afternoon, more than 180,000 Los Angeles residents have been ordered to evacuate as deadly fires ravage the city. Hurricane-force winds reaching up to 100 miles per hour whipped the ...

Last year, six prisoners at Red Onion State Prison, a supermax facility on the state’s rural west side, intentionally burned themselves, prompting scrutiny of the prison from lawmakers and the public.

On the first day of his second presidential term, Donald Trump severely restricted transgender prisoners’ access to safe housing and proper medical care. Trump’s series of sweeping executive orders ...

The Appeal has created the first national database of prison commissary lists. Using the tool below, you can access full lists from the vast majority of U.S. states and see prices for many products ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, local and state governments are key actors in protecting the United States’s most vulnerable residents. They run jails and state prisons, which are essential to the task ...