Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity, Valena Beety examines how women and queer ...

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

Public defenders say judges routinely fail to consider whether defendants can afford bail, leaving poor and homeless people jailed on low-level charges. Other counties have already faced civil rights ...

This story was co-published with Truthout. Between 2016 and 2025, Michelle Shoemaker spent more than $1,000 on songs and games for her tablet — a rudimentary, prison-approved device she purchased from ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged 15 Minnesota residents with conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer after they participated in protests against ICE’s mass deportation campaign in ...

At Louisiana’s Angola prison, incarcerated workers are forced to pick crops in dangerous heat. A federal judge ruled last month that a recent Fifth Circuit decision took away his power to help them.

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 was published in partnership with In These Times. The Trump administration has doled out billions of taxpayer dollars to corporations tasked with carrying out its mass deportation agenda.

Attorneys with the New Jersey public defender’s office are seeking a new trial for Maria Montalvo, a former nurse who was convicted of burning her children to death more than two decades ago. Montalvo ...

Last week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the state’s mandatory punishment of life without parole for felony murder, ruling that it violates the state’s constitutional prohibition against ...

A lawsuit filed by Disability Rights Pennsylvania says that the state’s prison system restricts access to insulin pumps and glucose monitors, putting people with Type 1 diabetes at risk of death or ...

This article was co-published with Solitary Watch and Truthout. Grainy footage, filmed with contraband cell phones, forms the backbone of The Alabama Solution, a 2025 Oscar-nominated documentary that ...