2+ week, 16+ hour ago  (1299+ words) At Louisiana's Angola prison, incarcerated workers are forced to pick crops in dangerous heat. A federal judge ruled last month that a recent Fifth Circuit decision took away his power to help them. Last month, a federal judge found that…...

4+ week, 17+ hour ago  (654+ words) Prison abolitionist art creates a future to briefly live in, and from that place, turn and look at our present. This story was co-published with Truthout. I banged my head on the bars. It was 2: 00 am. I was in a…...

4+ week, 17+ hour ago  (1286+ words) Experts say "investigative hypnosis" creates an unacceptably high risk of false testimony, but Texas courts have refused to hear Flores's case. Now his life is in the Supreme Court's hands. Psychological experts have roundly condemned hypnosis as junk science. But…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1381+ words) Find out if your representatives have taken cash from Palantir, the private prison industry, and other companies fueling ICE's mass deportation efforts. This story was published in partnership with In These Times. The Trump administration has doled out billions of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1579+ words) Pennsylvania requires unanimous approval from a five-member pardon board before people incarcerated on life sentences can ask the governor for clemency. Ralph Bolden is 60 years old. He has spent most of his life behind bars." In 1994, Bolden, then 28, was secretly…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1096+ words) Private prison executive suggests federal government may buy detention facilities to circumvent state laws. His remarks were first reported in the author's substack, The Carceral Report. Private prison companies GEO Group and Core Civic have been accused of detaining people…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1728+ words) Maria Montalvo was convicted of murder in 1996 after her children's deaths in a fire, based on testimony from arson experts. In a petition for a new trial, her attorneys argue that the conviction rests on "outdated beliefs and junk science....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (536+ words) Activists say ending local and state cooperation with ICE is a key way to obstruct Trump's mass deportation machine. This story was co-published with Truthout. Grassroots coalitions in a growing number of states are working to pass legislation to cut…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (535+ words) The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling is part of a nationwide trend to challenge life without parole sentences. This story was co-published with Truthout. In late March, Pennsylvania's Supreme Court issued a momentous ruling overturning mandatory life sentences for people convicted…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (841+ words) The vitriol of Trump's anti-trans attacks has stoked anti-trans violence by prison staff and other incarcerated people. This story was co-published with Truthout. Visibility can be fraught. In prisons, where staff may forcibly " and legally " strip people as a routine…...