A lawsuit in Illinois charges that prisons blocking videophone capabilities violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Tim Ballard, the disgraced “anti-sex-trafficking” expert, was the subject of a hit 2023 biographical film and serial sexual misconduct allegations in the same year. After Ballard’s fall, the people he ...

This story is published in partnership with Truthout. For decades, corporate media and elected officials have shown little interest in reporting by incarcerated individuals on the unchecked inhumane ...

In the early ‘90s, Oklahoma prosecutors claimed Littlejohn and another man had killed someone, even though the victim was shot with a single bullet. A state board has recommended the governor spare ...

“They were destroying me,” said one person placed in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s “Program for the Aggressive Mentally Ill Offender.” In the nine months after Edee Davis arrived at the ...

After a jury convicted Jamal Trulove, then 25, of first degree murder in February 2010, then-San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris praised the “brave witness who stepped forward from the crowd ...

Lawsuits from Joliet Police Department officers are among at least 12 current federal complaints against the agency. The men say their civil rights lawsuits are part of a decades-long history of ...

CoreCivic’s revenue from contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) skyrocketed in 2025, but some participants on today’s quarterly earnings call expressed concerns that ICE had not ...

Last year, on the day before Christmas, a 45-year-old man with cancer was lying on a mattress on the floor of an Illinois prison, with feces on his hands, according to a report filed in federal court ...

When Hurricane Helene made landfall last week, thousands of incarcerated people were in its pathway as it pummeled parts of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Florida. As The Appeal has ...

Late last month, the internet seemed to explode after a Twitter user posted a video depicting a young woman licking a tub of Blue Bell ice cream and putting it back in a supermarket freezer. It was ...

Photo by Paul Goyette via Flickr. This story was co-published with Truthout. Local governments in Virginia are under mounting pressure to cancel contracts for surveillance cameras known as automated ...