Tommy Winfrey read a selected chapter from a memoir, The Things I Peed On, and had a crowd of about 100 inmates grabbing their sides with laughter, as … [Read more...]

Understanding history is a tricky business, always written by he who controls the message. That being said, when looking back to figure out what … [Read more...]

The American criminal justice system largely fails to identify mental illness and its relationship to crime, according to VERA Institute of … [Read more...]

A concert honoring former San Quentin inmate Henry Cowell drew an eclectic crowd of inmates and outside visitors to San Quentin’s Protestant Chapel. … [Read more...]

Nearly 50 outsiders ventured inside a state prison, finding their way to its Catholic Chapel for a Restorative Justice symposium that brought crime … [Read more...]

It would probably be frightening for someone from the future to appear before us and provide a message about what is to come and then disappear. … [Read more...]

Stark, Fla.—Askari Abdullah Muhammad, previously known as Thomas Knight, was executed Jan. 7 for killing a prison guard in 1980. McAlester, … [Read more...]

A North Carolina forensic crime lab was found to have failed to follow proper reporting procedures, according to a state inquiry commission. A 2012 … [Read more...]

Almost all Pennsylvania state prisoners have experienced traumatic events in their lives, a new study concludes. Eighty-five percent of the nearly 600 … [Read more...]