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 ...

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 and document the Trump administration’s ...

Fresh investigative reporting, media from other independent outlets, and stories from the archives. Since The Appeal has ...

After Ballard’s fall, the people he helped arrest in Washington want to know why no one seems willing to take a second look at their cases.

White voices and victims dominate the genre, which can skew the perception of what constitutes a crime. I called Lowery not long ago to talk about that whiteness, which swamps the genre across books, ...

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 ...

When Cynthia Sommer’s husband, Todd, died in 2002, the medical examiner said a cardiac arrhythmia was responsible. But prosecutors charged Sommer with murder on the theory she had poisoned her husband ...

Today, The Appeal published Locked In, Priced Out, a project that includes a first-of-its-kind database of prison commissary lists from 46 states. This project also examines the availability, prices, ...

Abolition advocates are celebrating a milestone for racial justice. Virginia, the state that has executed more people than any other in the nation, has abolished the death penalty. The legislation ...

Content Warning: This story contains depictions of sexual harassment and abuse. Kim Brown says she met a lieutenant at New York’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in 1996 or 1997 when she was sent ...