The incarcerated men who produced footage for The Alabama Solution were abruptly transferred to solitary this month.

At least 32 people died in ICE jails in 2025. Six more have already died in ICE custody during the first three weeks of 2026.

A 2018 restraint chair death led to a $1.5 million legal settlement. The jail has used restraint chairs more than 1,000 times ...

A 2021 incident in a Missouri prison illustrates the barriers Muslims face practicing their religion behind bars.

Those of us who see ourselves in Renee Good can take this moment to deepen our solidarities with all who are policed.

Those of us who see ourselves in Renee Good can take this moment to deepen our solidarities with all who are policed.

After author Ben Austen released a book on Chicago’s Cabrini-Green public housing complex in 2018, a reader contacted him with information on the high-profile killings of two police officers he’d ...

Juan Moreno Haines is an award-winning incarcerated journalist and a member of the Society of Professional Journalists. This article was made possible by a grant from the Solitary Confinement ...

More than 5,400 people in the state are sentenced to life without parole. This month, The Appeal went inside one prison that helps provide end-of-life care for men. An elderly man sits in wheelchair ...

Kim Ogg was elected district attorney of Harris County, Texas, in 2016 on a criminal justice reform platform, but has spent her first term largely pushing the status quo. She has repeatedly asked the ...

Rodney Reed, set to be executed on Nov. 20, is innocent of a rape and murder, his lawyers say, and untested evidence will prove it. But prosecutors have pushed back, arguing the evidence is ...