Incarceration Florida’s ‘Secret’ Formulas to Calculate Release Dates May Be Trapping People in Prison
‘Habitual Offender’ Laws Imprison Thousands for Small Crimes—Sometimes for Life Tana Ganeva Sep 26, 2022
How American Public Spaces Became so Criminalized—and How We Can Win Them Back Nneka Ewulonu Sep 21, 2022
L.A. County’s Jail Booking Center Has Become a ‘Living Hell,’ Detainees Say in Court Filing Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Sep 13, 2022
Judge Strikes Down New York Jail’s Prolonged COVID Visitation Ban Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Aug 18, 2022
Calls for Action After Reports of Inedible Food at Virginia Prison Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Aug 17, 2022
Report Details ‘Cruel’ and ‘Unconscionable’ Treatment of Patients in Illinois Prisons Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Aug 15, 2022
How American Public Spaces Became so Criminalized—and How We Can Win Them Back Nneka Ewulonu Sep 21, 2022
Calls for Action After Reports of Inedible Food at Virginia Prison Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Aug 17, 2022
DOJ Admits It Has No Idea How Many People Die in Law Enforcement Custody Thousands of deaths in jails, prisons, and police custody have gone uncounted in recent years. Now the DOJ is calling for changes to federal law. Ethan Corey Sep 20, 2022
28 Years, 160 Arrests: What One Man’s Record Reveals About San Diego’s Broken Justice System What do you do with people who are repeatedly failed by social services and the legal system? Kelly Davis Jul 11, 2022
Why the U.S. Marshals Spend Millions on Sex-Offense Registrant Sweeps The real aim of these operations might be to boost support for cops. Steven Yoder Jul 08, 2022
Justice Department Launches Investigation Into NYPD’s Troubled Special Victims Division The probe will assess whether the SVD engages in a “pattern or practice of gender-biased policing," according to the DOJ. Meg O'Connor Jun 30, 2022
Almost All Abortions Are Now Banned in Arizona A judge allowed a Civil War-era law to go back into effect today. The law requires two to five years in prison for people who provide abortions, except to save the life of the pregnant person. Meg O'Connor Sep 23, 2022
Pressure Mounts Against HIV Criminalization as Prosecutions Continue Roughly 30 states still have some form of HIV criminalization law or sentencing enhancement on the books. Advocates say it’s long past time for change. Adam M. Rhodes Sep 15, 2022
Brooke Jenkins Can’t Have It Both Ways The new San Francisco DA is mixing “tough-on-crime” rhetoric with phony progressivism. Neither will solve the city’s problems. Rachel Marshall Aug 05, 2022
Arizona Judge Blocks Law That Treats Fetuses as People The law granted embryos and fetuses the same rights as a person. Civil rights groups sought an injunction out of concern the law could criminalize people who provide or obtain abortions. Meg O'Connor Jul 12, 2022
Prosecutor Lauded For Investigating Trump Also Wants to Send Educators to Prison As Fulton County DA Fani Willis’s profile rises, the glossy coverage has largely ignored her crusade to incarcerate teachers accused of cheating on tests. Anna Simonton Jul 06, 2022
A New Jersey Woman Claimed Innocence In ‘Shaken Baby’ Death. Now Her Conviction May Get Another Look. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Feb 15, 2022
The State Convicted Him of Child Abuse. A Medical Expert Said It Was Likely Diaper Rash Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Jun 29, 2021
A Manhattan D.A. Candidate Touts Her Leadership of a Conviction Review Unit. Why Did It Exonerate So Few People? Sam Mellins May 17, 2021
Her Lawyers Say She Was Coerced To Plead Guilty To A Crime That Never Happened Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Sep 23, 2020
Officers Involved In Notorious Wrongful Conviction Aren’t On Prosecutor’s Do-Not-Call List Kira Lerner Aug 19, 2020
The Texas Appeals Court Upheld This Man’s Death Sentence Despite New Scientific Evidence Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Apr 01, 2020
DOJ Admits It Has No Idea How Many People Die in Law Enforcement Custody Thousands of deaths in jails, prisons, and police custody have gone uncounted in recent years. Now the DOJ is calling for changes to federal law. Ethan Corey Sep 20, 2022
L.A. County’s Jail Booking Center Has Become a ‘Living Hell,’ Detainees Say in Court Filing County officials agree that conditions have deteriorated at L.A.’s Inmate Reception Center. But they’re resisting calls for substantive change. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Sep 13, 2022
L.A. Ended a Zero-Bail COVID Rule, and Now the Jail Population is Growing In June, a judge ended an emergency order to slow the spread of COVID-19 in LA’s jails, enraging civil-rights advocates. Nili Blanck Sep 07, 2022
Judge Strikes Down New York Jail’s Prolonged COVID Visitation Ban The ban had helped the Broome County Sheriff rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits from detainee video and phone call fees. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Aug 18, 2022
Bail Reform Helps Countless People. Why Don’t We Hear More of Their Stories? Personal narratives can help the public understand the benefits of bail reform, but telling these success stories presents its own share of challenges. Bryce Covert Jul 19, 2022
New York Jail’s Prolonged COVID Visitation Ban Drives Big Profits on Detainee Calls More than two years into the pandemic, the Broome County Sheriff’s Office is still prohibiting all jail visits. The policy helped them take in more than a half-million dollars in 2021. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Jun 14, 2022
Bail Reform Helps Countless People. Why Don’t We Hear More of Their Stories? Bryce Covert Jul 19, 2022
Philadelphia Jails Have Black Mold, Rats, Poor Heating, Say Women Held There Joshua Vaughn Dec 16, 2020
Newly Elected Los Angeles DA Will End Cash Bail in Nation’s Largest Prosecutor Office Eliyahu Kamisher Dec 07, 2020
‘Habitual Offender’ Laws Imprison Thousands for Small Crimes—Sometimes for Life Data obtained by The Appeal show nearly 2,000 people in Mississippi and Louisiana are serving long—and sometimes life—sentences after they were labeled “habitual offenders." But most are behind bars for small crimes like drug possession. Tana Ganeva Sep 26, 2022
Louisiana Wants to Jail Kids at Angola Prison’s Old Death Row An upcoming court ruling could decide the fate of a plan to detain “problematic youth” at a facility that previously housed prisoners awaiting execution. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Sep 22, 2022
How Prison Visit Restrictions Force Parents to Make Tough Decisions Patrick Stephens, a formerly incarcerated writer, explains how arbitrary, byzantine, and punitive visiting rules tear apart the families of the incarcerated—especially after the pandemic. Patrick Stephens Sep 22, 2022
DOJ Admits It Has No Idea How Many People Die in Law Enforcement Custody Thousands of deaths in jails, prisons, and police custody have gone uncounted in recent years. Now the DOJ is calling for changes to federal law. Ethan Corey Sep 20, 2022
L.A. County’s Jail Booking Center Has Become a ‘Living Hell,’ Detainees Say in Court Filing County officials agree that conditions have deteriorated at L.A.’s Inmate Reception Center. But they’re resisting calls for substantive change. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Sep 13, 2022
Trans Man Forced to Undergo Genital Exam at New York Prison: Lawsuit Prison officials allegedly used solitary confinement to get the plaintiff to submit to an invasive examination prohibited under federal law. Chris Gelardi Aug 31, 2022
Georgia’s Unique Death Penalty Law Is Killing the Mentally Disabled Georgia is the strictest state in America when it comes to proving intellectual disability in capital cases. This month, the Supreme Court could save the life of a man who says he is mentally disabled—or let the state kill him. Lauren Gill Feb 23, 2022
Victims’ Families Want Virginia to End The Death Penalty Virginia may soon become the 23rd state to abolish capital punishment. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Jan 29, 2021
Members of Congress Call on Biden to Commute Everyone on Federal Death Row More than 35 members of Congress signed a letter asking Biden to commute the sentences of the remaining 50 people on federal death row. Meg O'Connor Jan 22, 2021
Austin’s Unreliable Crime Lab Could Lead to Another Wrongful Execution Dubious DNA evidence—and a potential coverup by the Travis County DA’s office—are at the heart of a judge’s recommendation that Areli Escobar gets a new trial. Jerry Iannelli Jan 20, 2021
As Support For The Death Penalty Plummets, The Trump Administration Embraces Executions While bans on capital punishment progress at the state level, the federal government is racing to carry out three more executions before President Trump's term end. Ten people have been put to death since July, the first such executions since 2003. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Jan 08, 2021
Terry McAuliffe’s Record on the Death Penalty Is Out of Step With National Trends McAuliffe is running to become Virginia governor a second time. If he wins, he would be the only active Democratic governor to have carried out executions in office. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Dec 11, 2020
Almost All Abortions Are Now Banned in Arizona A judge allowed a Civil War-era law to go back into effect today. The law requires two to five years in prison for people who provide abortions, except to save the life of the pregnant person. Meg O'Connor Sep 23, 2022
How American Public Spaces Became so Criminalized—and How We Can Win Them Back Nneka Ewulonu Sep 21, 2022
Pressure Mounts Against HIV Criminalization as Prosecutions Continue Roughly 30 states still have some form of HIV criminalization law or sentencing enhancement on the books. Advocates say it’s long past time for change. Adam M. Rhodes Sep 15, 2022
Amid Fears of Crime and Mental Illness, States Move to Expand Forced Treatment Advocates of assisted outpatient treatment say it could reduce homelessness and mass shootings. Critics call it incarceration by another name. Caleb Brennan Aug 04, 2022
Arizona Judge Blocks Law That Treats Fetuses as People The law granted embryos and fetuses the same rights as a person. Civil rights groups sought an injunction out of concern the law could criminalize people who provide or obtain abortions. Meg O'Connor Jul 12, 2022
Arizona Judge Blocks Law That Treats Fetuses as People The law granted embryos and fetuses the same rights as a person. Civil rights groups sought an injunction out of concern the law could criminalize people who provide or obtain abortions. Meg O'Connor Jul 12, 2022
Supreme Court Overturns Roe, Opening Door for Mass Criminalization of Abortion Police and prosecutors will now be tasked with enforcing state anti-abortion laws. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Jun 24, 2022
Democrats Would Rather Become Republicans Than Make the Case for Justice Reform Jerry Iannelli Jun 22, 2022
Pennsylvania Democrats Had a Chance to Reject Law Limiting Philly D.A.’s Authority Joshua Vaughn Jul 25, 2019
Spotlight: Incarcerated Women Helped Draft New York Law to Free Domestic Violence Survivors Sarah Lustbader Jun 06, 2019
A Flurry of Bills Followed Larry Nassar’s Conviction. Here’s Why That’s a Problem. Natasha Lennard May 25, 2018
Advancing Peace, Against the Odds In Stockton, California, a police-free gun violence prevention program is standing firm against the tough-on-crime backlash. Heather Tirado Gilligan Aug 03, 2022
