Abortion Providers Fight to Keep Working During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Conservative lawmakers are using emergency measures to restrict access to care.
Conservative lawmakers are using emergency measures to restrict access to care.
With Appeal staff reporter Lauren Gill
Spotlights like this one provide original commentary and analysis on pressing criminal justice issues of the day. You can read them each day in our newsletter, The Daily Appeal. At least 462 people were released early from Oklahoma prisons yesterday in the largest mass commutation in U.S. history. A total of 527 people had their sentences […]
Oklahoma, Mississippi, and Alabama have all authorized the practice in capital punishment. So what happens now?
Christopher Lay grew up under the influence of a father who was mentally ill. Drawn into a crime at age 19, he’s now seeking a second chance that could help other young adults demand the same.
A company in Cleveland County exemplifies how for-profit legal services affect poor and vulnerable individuals.
But more than 1,100 others are still serving sentences that voters decided were too harsh.
An Oklahoma woman is serving 18 months in prison after being accused of failing to protect her daughter from the girl’s dad.
Will the state with the second highest incarceration rate get its act together?
Anthony Huff tragically died in the Garfield County Jail in Oklahoma last year, after staff restrained him in a chair and failed to hydrate and feed him for two days, according to court documents unsealed and released to the public on July 25. But in a rare move, prosecutors in the state decided to hold the […]