Tien Mo is still awaiting a response to her 2017 clemency application. As previously reported in Truthout, at age 20, she was ...

The first ruling of its kind in the country could give people convicted based on SBS testimony a new shot at freedom.

In late September, Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) stopped Jose Bonilla Lopez, a gardener who lived ...

FCI Dublin was shut down in 2024 after revelations of abuse against prisoners. Residents want it to stay closed.

This story is being co-published by The Appeal and the Invisible Institute, a Chicago-based nonprofit public accountability journalism organization. In 2015, Louisiana lawmakers created a database to ...

This story was co-published with Truthout. When concerned residents of the New Orleans metro area stepped out into the streets with their whistles and phone cameras over the weekend, ready to protest ...

For more than 200 days, Fernando Herrera-Cruz has been sitting in a county jail in central Missouri on immigration charges. The conditions in the jail are “very bad,” Herrera-Cruz told Truthout, with ...

Before ICE descended on New Orleans, GOP lawmakers made it a crime to interfere with immigration enforcement.

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This commentary is part of The Appeal’s collection of opinion and analysis. In Los Angeles, residents of historically Black and Latinx neighborhoods are being pushed out of their homes as the ...

“A normal heterosexual person would not be so offended […] as to murder,” a prosecutor argued in a capital case in the late 1990s in rural Illinois. “I hope you die in prison like all the rest of your ...

The latest frontier in drug reform has been the loosening of legal restrictions on psilocybin—the psychoactive compound in “magic mushrooms.” Psilocybin reform is an important development for at least ...