"Innocent New Yorkers will continue to sit in our jails and prisons, or remain saddled with an unlawful criminal record in our communities, unable to clear their names," warned one…
By Jean Casella / Solitary Watch It’s Christmastime once again in Incarceration Nation. Amid the celebrations, fears, and hopes the season brings this year, it is worth stopping for a…
PJP contributors share their reflections on celebrating the holidays inside.
The threat of a death sentence creates a crucible of dehumanization that no one should have to experience and no one has the right to inflict.
Missouri courts are denying Marcellus Williams his right to a hearing where he could present DNA evidence that proves his innocence.
This could be a test case for citizen ballot initiatives in Atlanta, and possibly across the state.
After decades of broken promises and empty rhetoric, reform advocates have reason to be skeptical.
By Jessica Adler / The Conversation The family of Samuel Lawrence, one of 10 people to die in Georgia’s Fulton County Jail in 2023, is fighting for answers and accountability.…
Years ago, the all-white judges of a Louisiana appellate court decided, in secret, to systematically ignore petitions filed by prisoners, most of them Black, who claimed they had been unjustly…
The prison will be turned into a new-age rehabilitation center, but over $1 billion in maintenance needs are being neglected.
By Death Penalty Focus Gallup released a poll this week that found that for the first time since 2000 when it began asking whether respondents believed the death penalty was…
“I am really the ambassador for everyone’s pain,” Yusef Salaam said during the campaign.
By Kevin Cooper / Original to ScheerPost A poem by Langston Hughes-1902-1967 I, Too I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother.They send me to eat in the kitchenWhen…
After nearly five decades in prison, Glynn Simmons is exonerated for a murder he did not commit.
By Dave Maass and Jennifer Pinsof / Electronic Frontier Foundation California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued a legal interpretation and guidance for law enforcement agencies around the state that…
