Creating a safe and just pretrial system in Minnesota requires more than small tweaks—we need a ground-up transformation.

Most prisons in America are pretty easy to describe: aging, dilapidated buildings stuffed with a lot of broken people.

State and federal governments have moved to criminalize trans people, parents of trans children, and healthcare providers.

The Appeal—and much of the media—has been misspelling Tyré Nichols’ name for years.

Wells shared that Tyré was named by his godmother, Latanya Yizar, who has since passed away. She confirmed that she would ...

Creating a safe and just pretrial system in Minnesota requires more than small tweaks—we need a ground-up transformation.

Earlier this month, federal immigration agents arrested gubernatorial candidate Newark City Mayor Ras Baraka outside an immigration detention facility, sparking national headlines and widespread ...

This story is part of the Inside/Out Journalism Project by Type Investigations, which works with incarcerated reporters to produce ambitious, feature-length investigations, with support from the ...

Trans people are more than four times as likely to experience violent crime. Behind bars, incarcerated trans Americans experience sexual violence at more than 12 times the rate of other imprisoned ...

This week’s private prison earnings calls make clear that Trump’s racist reign of terror has been great for business. “I would like to share how excited I am ...

In 1978, the Oscar-winning documentary “Scared Straight!” popularized the idea that the best way to prevent young people from incarceration is to scare them. The film focuses on a group of “juvenile ...

D. “Razor” Babb is the founding editor-in-chief of The Mule Creek Post, a newspaper published out of Mule Creek State Prison in California, where he is incarcerated. He is also a 2008-09 winner of the ...