Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg

The ACLU says in a new lawsuit that South Carolina’s ban on prison media interviews violates the First Amendment.

Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey, and Jeff Merkley wrote a letter alleging the American Correctional Association accreditation leads to abuse.

New York officials have flooded the NYC subway with cops and the National Guard in a show of “security theater.” It won’t improve safety.

St. Clair County and Genessee County, Michigan, allegedly banned in-person jail visits in order to profit from Securus and GTL fees.

The Appeal’s 9-month investigation uncovered prison commissaries’ exploitative, inconsistent systems with inside prices up to five times higher than in the community and markups as high as 600 percent.

Inside The Appeal’s 9-month investigation.

Less than five months into 2024, deaths at the Clayton County Jail have already surpassed last year’s total. The local sheriff’s lack of transparency has only compounded the pain for grieving families.

Exposing the harms of the criminal legal system and elevating solutions that keep all people safe.

Incarcerated laborers on Angola’s Farm Line face “substantial risk of injury or death” during extreme heat, a federal judge ruled this week, ordering corrections officials to make policy changes to “preserve human health and safety.”

Over the course of nine days at New Mexico’s Otero County Detention Center last June, Jacob Gutierrez repeatedly engaged in self-harm and survived multiple suicide attempts before taking his life. A lawsuit accuses jail staff of failing to keep him safe.

Tiana Hill testified before the U.S. Senate that staff at the Clayton County Jail forced her to give birth on a metal bed. Her child died.

With heat waves sweeping across the country, incarcerated people in states with traditionally milder climates are facing brutal conditions that have long plagued the South and Southwest. A survey by The Appeal reveals that many of the hottest states house prisoners in units without air-conditioning.

Texas is set to execute Robert Roberson for allegedly shaking his baby to death. But the "shaken baby syndrome" diagnosis has been debunked.

Judge Ronnie K. Batchelor rejected Danyel Smith’s motion to overturn his 2003 conviction, despite evidence his son died of natural causes.

More than 700 prisoners at FPC Montgomery in Alabama refused meals over concerns that the prison was refusing to release people on time.

In 2019, New Jersey passed a law restricting how long prisons can hold people in solitary confinement, but people say they're still isolated.

More than 20,000 people are incarcerated in Florida jails and prisons located in counties subject to evacuation orders.

Shaken baby syndrome junk-science convicted Tasha Shelby. Will Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves set her free?

Despite pleas from state lawmakers, Texas will execute Robert Roberson on Oct. 17 unless Governor Greg Abbott grants a reprieve in his case.

Staff at the Curran Fromhold Correctional Facility, a Philadelphia jail, allegedly did not give Louis Jung Jr. his insulin for six days.