These Prisoners Locked Up for Life as Children Could Have a Chance at Freedom After the Midterms
A juvenile lifer in Michigan wears handcuffs as he appears for his resentencing hearing at the Kent County Courthouse in Grand Rapids in September 2016. Cory Morse/The Grand Rapids Press via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Kevin Boyd distracts himself these days by running 10Ks around the track. Or…
Tennessee Is Going to Electrocute a Death Row Inmate
Tennessee’s death chamberMark Humphrey/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday, 63-year-old Tennessee death row inmate Edmund Zagorski will be put to death in the electric chair. The inmate has been on death row for more than 30 years for the 1983 murders of John Dale Dotson and Jimmy Porter…
Alabama Voters Could Ban Sheriffs From Pocketing Tax Money Meant to Feed Inmates
Richard Ernest Yap/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ten years ago, an Alabama sheriff paid $500 for half a truckload of corn dogs. It was a sweet deal for Morgan County Sheriff Greg Bartlett, who liked to find free or donated food for his county jail so he could pocket the…
The Washington Supreme Court Just Banned Life-Without-Parole Sentences for Teens
kali9/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Washington’s state Supreme Court has ruled that it’s unconstitutional to sentence teen offenders to life in prison without parole because their brains are less developed than those of adult offenders, arguing that they should be granted a second chance because of their potential for…
Capital Punishment Has Officially Ended in Washington State
The death chamber at Washington State Penitentiary Ted S. Warren/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Washington state just abolished capital punishment. On Thursday morning, the state’s Supreme Court ruled that the state’s death penalty is unconstitutional because it’s racially biased and arbitrary applied. “[T]he use of the death penalty is…
A Surprise Inspection of an ICE Detention Center Reveals Horrific Conditions
Immigrants wait in a processing cell at Adalanto Detention Facility.John Moore/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Inside an immigration detention center in the desert outside Los Angeles, guards threw detainees into solitary confinement without hearings, routinely forced them into shackles, and cut off visits with family. Doctors signed off…