Tien Mo is still awaiting a response to her 2017 clemency application. As previously reported in Truthout, at age 20, she was ...

The first ruling of its kind in the country could give people convicted based on SBS testimony a new shot at freedom.

In late September, Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) stopped Jose Bonilla Lopez, a gardener who lived ...

When concerned residents of the New Orleans metro area stepped out into the streets with their whistles and phone cameras over the weekend, ready to protest and document the Trump administration’s ...

Fresh investigative reporting, media from other independent outlets, and stories from the archives. Since The Appeal has ...

After Ballard’s fall, the people he helped arrest in Washington want to know why no one seems willing to take a second look at their cases.

A few days after an argument with her boyfriend led to a 911 call, Ms. L, a mother of two young boys, received an unexpected visit from Child Protective Services (CPS). The caseworker asked her if she ...

Spotlights like this one provide original commentary and analysis on pressing criminal justice issues of the day. You can read them each day in our newsletter, The Daily Appeal. In recent years, ...

The New Jersey department received slavish media praise after it was disbanded and reoriented toward community policing. But behind the reformist mask was an embrace of surveillance and broken windows ...

In 2006, Ann Colomb and her three sons were convicted of running one of the largest crack cocaine distribution rings in Louisiana. Federal prosecutors said that, over the course of a decade, the ...

Abolition advocates are celebrating a milestone for racial justice. Virginia, the state that has executed more people than any other in the nation, has abolished the death penalty. The legislation ...