Those Stories About Federal Inmates Eating Steak Were Just Red Meat for Conservatives
C. Aluka Berry/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Christmas Day, federal inmates were served holiday meals by prison employees, as happens each year. But this year, because correctional officers are working without pay due to the ongoing government shutdown, it made headlines. Late last week, USA Today published the complaints of disgruntled prison guards who wrote to the…
The Governor of Tennessee Just Granted Clemency to Cyntoia Brown
Cyntoia Brown appears in court during her clemency hearing in May.Lacy Atkins/The Tennessean/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Cyntoia Brown, a sex trafficking victim serving a life sentence in Tennessee for killing a man when she was 16, will walk free this summer after spending over a decade incarcerated. The yearslong…
The Supreme Court Said No More Life Without Parole for Kids. Why Is Antonio Espree One of the Few to Get Out of Prison?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On the morning of his 47th birthday, his first outside prison in three decades, Antonio Espree wakes up around 5 a.m. It’s a cool February day in Phoenix, still dark outside, and his cousin Marlon Bailey is asleep on a bed about an arm’s reach…
Here Are the People Trump Said the Death Penalty Should Be Used Against This Year
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the last year, President Donald Trump has repeatedly emphasized the death penalty in televised speeches, statements, and tweets. Sometimes, it was invoked in reference to certain groups, like drug dealers; other times, the president applied it to a specific…
This Supreme Court Murder Case Could Completely Change Tribal Sovereignty in Oklahoma
Mother Jones illustration; Oklahoma Department of Corrections/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Patrick Murphy didn’t say he was innocent. In the summer of 1999, when Murphy, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of eastern Oklahoma, killed his girlfriend’s ex-lover, also a Creek member, slashing his throat and cutting off his…
ICE Could Deport Him to a Country He’s Never Been To—Unless California’s Governor Steps In
Somdeng Danny Thongsy Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Somdeng Danny Thongsy was born 39 years ago in a Thai refugee camp, after his mother and older brother had fled their native Laos following the Vietnam War. His father had stayed back in Laos, and when Thongsy was two, his family…