Jessica Schulberg

In the late 1980s, the bodies of six missing girls and young women were found buried in shallow graves in the desert of El Paso, Texas. Most of the bodies were too decomposed to determine a cause of death, but […]

The first transgender woman to be removed from women’s housing in a Washington state prison filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, alleging that the state Department of Corrections’ decision to forcibly place her in a men’s prison violated the state constitution’s

During his final six months as president, Donald Trump’s administration carried out an unprecedented execution spree, killing 13 people. When President Joe Biden replaced Trump in 2021, he became the first U.S. president to publicly oppose the death penalty. He

Californians voted down Proposition 6, a ballot measure that eliminates the state’s constitutional provision that allows involuntary servitude for incarcerated workers. The measure would not have ended the practice of incarcerated people working for little to no pay, but it

Christopher Vialva’s dying request before the federal government executed him in 2020 was that his mother help other family members of the condemned navigate the process. Before he died, Vialva gave his mom’s contact information to another man on death

MCALESTER, Okla. — Linda Wood was not in the courtroom when her son Jake Wood was sentenced. She had already seen her youngest son, Tremane Wood, go to death row for the murder, which he insisted he did not commit.

The Oregon Board of Parole granted a release date of Jan. 9 to prominent incarcerated legal expert Mark Wilson, whose litigation efforts inside prison have helped thousands of other prisoners. Wilson was previously the subject of a HuffPost investigation, which

Earlier this year, Oklahoma state lawmakers passed a historic law requiring reduced sentences for survivors of domestic violence who could prove their crimes were related to their abuse. The Oklahoma Survivors’ Act, which passed with nearly unanimous support from state

In June of 1992, 31-year-old Kenneth Meers was killed by a single bullet during a robbery at the convenience store he owned in Oklahoma City. Prosecutors charged 26-year-old Glenn Bethany and 20-year old Emmanuel Littlejohn with robbery and first-degree murder.