The Conviction Review Unit has a staff of around five people, who began looking into cases in the summer of 2021.

Former Bad Boy rapper Moses "Shyne" Barrow opens up to PEOPLE about the life lessons he learned while he was was incarcerated.

Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty if an Idaho white supremacist gang member is convicted of killing a man while he ...

Ameen Hurst, 20, will serve 55 to 110 years behind bars following his escape from prison, where he was being held for murder ...

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced the sentencing of Ameen Hurst, a 19-year-old man who escaped prison last year after being involved in four separate homicides.

A Tennessee man accused in lawsuits of drugging and sexually assaulting dozens of women while police deliberately botched ...

Edgar Barrientos-Quintana never gave up hope that justice would be served, although he was never sure when his freedom would ...

Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general has been open about his admiration for El Salvador’s callous handling of criminals, ...

The Cognify project, a provocative idea that proposes a 'bar-less' prison model with inmates rehabilitated through prefabricated memories, sparks a debate on the ethical limits of using AI in ...

Unlocking the Truth" is a new docuseries from Nat Geo that examines what went on behind the scenes of the infamous experiment.

A new docuseries challenges half a century's worth of received wisdom about the influential social psychology study ...

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, fearless throngs defied prison or worse to secretly shuttle as many as 7,000 ...