Mass Incarceration
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After 50 Years, Oklahoma City Will Finally Pay This Black Man Millions
Glynn Ray Simmons was sentenced to death for a 1974 murder he did not commit.
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Missouri Finally Frees a Man Wrongfully Held in Prison, Even After His Murder Conviction Was Overturned
A Black man spent 34 years and one week in prison for a crime he did not commiit
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15 Times Black Men Escaped Being Killed On Death Row
Exonerations from death row sentences are more common than we'd like to believe.
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Funeral Homes Reported to Families That Loved Ones’ Organs Were Missing. It Gets Worse
Five lawsuits allege the Alabama Department of Corrections returned inmate remains without their organs.
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New Trial for Chicago Man Following Blind Eyewitness Testimony
A Black man had his conviction overturned after being found guilty based on a blind eyewitness testimony.
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Minnesota Inmates Protest Being Oven-Baked in Their Cells
More than 100 inmates in a Minnesota prison refused to return to their cells due to extreme heat temperatures.
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Democratic Lawmakers, Say It’s Time To End Solitary Confinement!
Representatives Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman and others, introduced legislation to end the "inhumane" practice of solitary confinement in Federal Prisons.
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Rodney Reed’s Death Penalty Case Takes Another Blow
An appeals court denied Rodney Reed’s request for a retrial despite his claim there is evidence to prove his innocence.
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How Does a Man Freed from Prison Get Ordered Back for Life?
Crosley Green was exonerated in 2018 until a Florida appeals court overturned the appeal that set him free.
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Pardon Sought in 1908 Execution That Was Really a Lynching
A petition to grant Joe James posthumous clemency will be brought to Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.