It’s Known as “Death by Incarceration.” These People Want to End It.
More people are serving life sentences without parole in Pennsylvania than almost anywhere else in America. An increasingly vocal movement is trying to change that.
Junk Science Is Putting Innocent People in Prison
The Innocence Project’s Chris Fabricant explains the various ways evidence can be manipulated to look scientifically sound, but is usually not.
What Juneteenth Looks Like for Incarcerated People
"As Black men in prison, we live the tension between celebrating the abolition of slavery and struggling inside the system that replaced it."
In 2022, Exonerations Hit a Record High in the U.S.
Globally, potential innocence has long outweighed potential guilt. That philosophy of justice may not be one that the majority of Americans endorse.
‘Freedom’
Can Oppressed People Ever Truly Be Free In America?
Incarcerated Organizers Who Won Their Freedom Now Facing Deportation
After decades in prison, they were paroled and organized for immigrant rights. Pardons would prevent their deportation.
Being Pregnant in Prison Is a Nightmare That Won’t Be Ended by One Bill Alone
Even for future people who are pregnant behind bars, legislation doesn’t necessarily ensure that prison or jail officials will follow the new measures.
‘Habitual Offender’ Laws Imprison Thousands for Small Crimes — Sometimes for Life
Data obtained by The Appeal show nearly 2,000 people in Mississippi and Louisiana are serving long—and sometimes life—sentences after they were labeled “habitual offenders." But most are behind bars for…
Major Criminal Justice Reform is on the Docket in California
Bills that would restrict solitary confinement and allow review of inmates’ trials that were tainted by racial bias are now awaiting Gov. Newsom’s signature.
Bail Reform Helps Countless People. Why Don’t We Hear More of Their Stories?
Personal narratives can help the public understand the benefits of bail reform, but telling these success stories presents its own share of challenges.
Chris Hedges on Trauma and Teaching Writing in Prison
Chris Hedges joins Mansa Musa on Rattling the Bars to discuss his new book, “Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison.”
John Kiriakou: New York’s Prison Crisis
Rikers Island has been in the news lately, but Great Meadow Correctional Facility is even worse.
Meet Jed Rakoff, the Judge Who Exposed the “Rigged Game”
“We have mass incarceration for the poor, and it’s totally hands-off for the rich, and that’s pretty hard to stomach.” Justice Jed Rakoff on his new book, and his famous…
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Eddie Conway: Prisons Enable America’s Obscene Wealth
On this week's "Scheer Intelligence," prisoner-turned-journalist Eddie Conway talks about how the immorally cheap labor of those caught in the prison industrial complex is the shame of the U.S. economy.
Advocates Stand With Bill Cosby’s 60 Accusers After Sexual Assault Conviction Overturned
The justices at Pennsylvania's Supreme Court also ruled out the possibility that Cosby could be retried in that state.