Earlier this month, federal immigration agents arrested gubernatorial candidate Newark City Mayor Ras Baraka outside an immigration detention facility, sparking national headlines and widespread ...

The Appeal—and much of the media—has been misspelling Tyré Nichols’ name for years.

Wells shared that Tyré was named by his godmother, Latanya Yizar, who has since passed away. She confirmed that she would ...

State and federal governments have moved to criminalize trans people, parents of trans children, and healthcare providers.

Creating a safe and just pretrial system in Minnesota requires more than small tweaks—we need a ground-up transformation.

Most prisons in America are pretty easy to describe: aging, dilapidated buildings stuffed with a lot of broken people.

This story is part of the Inside/Out Journalism Project by Type Investigations, which works with incarcerated reporters to produce ambitious, feature-length investigations, with support from the ...

D. “Razor” Babb is the founding editor-in-chief of The Mule Creek Post, a newspaper published out of Mule Creek State Prison in California, where he is incarcerated. He is also a 2008-09 winner of the ...

Nina Zweig is research editor at Type Investigations, where she also oversees the Inside/Out Journalism Project for incarcerated reporters. After mystery illnesses and toxic reports, prisoners at ...

Andrew Quemere is an independent investigative journalist from Massachusetts. He writes about issues like wrongful convictions, police misconduct, and government transparency. He is the author of The ...

James Carver spent 36 years in prison after he was convicted of setting one of the deadliest fires in Massachusetts history. But after reviewing new scientific evidence, a judge set him free.

As Portland weighs expansion of an alternative crisis-response program, new data from a MindSite News-Medill investigation shows police often deploy force on residents who are unhoused or grappling ...