This story was co-published with Truthout. “Why are they doing women like this? Are we the weaker sex?” Mishunda Davis told Truthout in a call from Logan Correctional Center, Illinois’s largest ...

Prison abolitionist art creates a future to briefly live in, and from that place, turn and look at our present.

Experts say “investigative hypnosis” often leads to false testimony, but Texas courts have refused to hear Charles Flores’s ...

Prison abolitionist art creates a future to briefly live in, and from that place, turn and look at our present.

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.

Ethan Corey is The Appeal’s Research & Projects Editor, where he combines investigative research with data-driven journalism to illuminate critical issues in the criminal justice system. Ethan ...

Pennsylvania requires unanimous approval from a five-member pardon board before people incarcerated on life sentences can ask the governor for clemency. Sheena King, 53, has been incarcerated since ...

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 ...