Prison, Reentry & Exoneration News
Stories of people freed after wrongful convictions, programs helping people come home, and what's changing in prisons and courts. Updated every hour; each headline links to the original story.
- Judge denies certificate of innocence for exonerated man, says she's confident original murder conviction was properExonerationsCWB Chicago
- Henderson jailer pushes reentry programReentry & jobsEyewitness News (WEHT/WTVW)
- Exonerated Barrientes Vela files lawsuits over handling of 2019 criminal investigationExonerationsKSAT
- What Happens When Prisons Take Away Conjugal Visits?FamiliesThe Marshall Project
- Reading City Council hears request for tax exoneration for Buddhist templeExonerationsWFMZ.com
- The Marshall Project is Putting on a Concert of Music Made in PrisonsPrisonsThe Marshall Project
- Decatur-based inmate reentry program planning service expansionReentry & jobsWHNT.com
- Former Camilla city manager demands exoneration letter, offers to settle lawsuitExonerationsWALB
- Inmate Reentry Program Planning Expansion | Sept. 19, 2026 | News 19 at 5 p.m. - WeekendReentry & jobsWHNT.com
- Why Some Jurors and Judges No Longer Trust Trump’s Justice DepartmentCourts & policyThe Marshall Project
- Indiana Court of Appeals Affirms New Trial for Notre Dame Exoneration Justice Clinic Client Jason HubbellExonerationsUniversity of Notre Dame
- Alabama Prison Guard Charged for Failing to Act During Fatal StabbingPrisonsEqual Justice Initiative
- Should Larry Krasner still lead the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office? | EditorialCourts & policyInquirer.com
- Taking GLP-1 Shots in Prison? Yes, But It’s Complicated.PrisonsThe Marshall Project
- New Prison Policy Gives Trump Administration More Power to Punish EnemiesPrisonsThe Marshall Project
- At Karaoke Night, These Exonerated New Yorkers Voice Their FreedomExonerationsThe New York Times
- Ruthie's Fueled by Good highlights second-chance hiring on North Texas Giving DayReentry & jobsFOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth
- Warrington couple has all charges dismissed in Halloween house partyCourts & policyPhillyBurbs
- Aligning Safety with Justice: The Case for a Disability-Inclusive Sentence Review StatuteCourts & policyThe Sentencing Project
- How to Prepare for a Release Date From PrisonPrisonsThe Marshall Project
- What Our Society Would Lose If Lindsay Clancy Is ExoneratedExonerationsNational Review
- Philly DA Krasner is silent as controversy grows. His court filing isn’t. | OpinionCourts & policyInquirer.com
- Testimony in Support of Raise the Age Legislation in MassachusettsCourts & policyThe Sentencing Project
- Alabama Executes Jeffery Lee Despite Jury Vote for LifeCourts & policyEqual Justice Initiative
- ICE Treatment of Transgender Women Reversing Years-Long PracticesCourts & policyThe Marshall Project
- Head of the Smithsonian Institution Stepping DownCourts & policyEqual Justice Initiative
- The Mourning AfterCourts & policyThe Marshall Project
- Inside the ‘Shadow Surge’ Driving ICE Arrests to New HeightsCourts & policyThe Marshall Project
- Gavin Newsom Could Reshape the U.S. Death Penalty, But It’s Politically RiskyCourts & policyThe Marshall Project
- ‘I Am Afraid of Losing a Life That Took Decades to Build’: Salvadorans Await Loss of TPSCourts & policyThe Marshall Project
- Incarcerated Person Apprehended After Walking Away from Male Community Reentry Program in Los AngelesReentry & jobscdcr.ca.gov
- Inmate Who Walked Away From LA County Reentry Program Arrested in VirginiaReentry & jobsMyNewsLA.com
- McKeesport nonprofit hosts roundtable on second chance hiringReentry & jobsThe Business Journals
- Rhode Island Must Finish The Work of Voting Rights RestorationCourts & policyThe Sentencing Project
- ICE Wrongfully Arrested Him. Will His Lawsuit Change How Courts Hold Agents Accountable?Courts & policyThe Marshall Project
- He Wrote a Song Called ‘Freedom.’ Now He’s Free.Courts & policyThe Marshall Project
- Can the high-profile reentry program Hope for Prisoners survive its founder's fall from grace?Reentry & jobsThe Nevada Independent
- How 'second chance' hiring changes lives in PhoenixReentry & jobsYahoo
- How 9/11 Supercharged Immigration EnforcementCourts & policyThe Marshall Project
- Man serving 80 years to life sentence exonerated of Lynwood attempted murdersExonerationsCBS News
- Iris Seabolt exonerated after 19 years behind bars for murder she didn't commitExonerationsWSBT
- Exonerated man, wife return from trip funded by community donationsExonerationsWAFB
- Exonerated Chicago woman Marilyn Mulero opens Wrongful Conviction Trauma Center in AustinExonerationsABC7 Chicago
- Notre Dame Exoneration Justice Clinic Client Iris Seabolt ExoneratedExonerationsUniversity of Notre Dame
- Virginia Removes Last Three Confederate Monuments From CapitolCourts & policyEqual Justice Initiative
- Teen Treatment Center CEO Accused of Unlawful Sexual Contact With Minor in Police StingCourts & policyThe Marshall Project
- The Parchman Band Started in the 1930s. A Modern Version Is Carrying on Tradition.Courts & policyThe Marshall Project
- Why is Crime Falling? The Answers Aren’t Simple.Courts & policyThe Marshall Project
- Voting Rights Restored for Over 41,000 Missourians Starting TodayCourts & policyThe Sentencing Project
- Mississippi Prison Band Offers a Glimpse of Freedom in a Lifetime of PunishmentPrisonsThe Marshall Project
- At a Texas Prison Where Intimacy Is Banned, Wedding Bells Are Ringing AnywayPrisonsThe Marshall Project
- Women Learned Their Jail Strip Searches Were Recorded. Their Outrage Changed the Law.PrisonsThe Marshall Project
- She Was Absolved of a Heinous Crime. Why Won’t They Leave Her Alone?Courts & policyThe New York Times
- After 42 Years in Prison, Ervin Harris Is Exonerated of a Rape ConvictionExonerationsInnocence Project
- ‘I always knew the truth’: Man wrongly imprisoned for 18 years exonerated in O.C. robberyExonerationsLos Angeles Times
- Race and Justice News: Uplifting ProgressCourts & policyThe Sentencing Project
- Restaurant that hires former inmates hopes rehabilitation program continues after CEO’s arrestPrisonsFOX5 Vegas
- Federal Court: Confederate Names “Cannot Be Divorced From Racial Discrimination”Courts & policyEqual Justice Initiative
- Report: Hope for Prisoners CEO arrested, accused of sexually assaulting inmatesPrisonsFOX5 Vegas
- Michigan Supreme Court Strikes Down Excessive Sentences for YouthCourts & policyEqual Justice Initiative
- Search underway for L.A. inmate who removed GPS, escaped facilityPrisonsKTLA
- Second-chance hiring helps fuel growth at Gilbert manufacturerReentry & jobsazcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
- EJI Presents “The Legacy of Slavery in America” at the Edinburgh International FestivalCourts & policyEqual Justice Initiative
- State of Alabama Executes Jeremy WilliamsCourts & policyEqual Justice Initiative
- Greenwood County Partners with EJI to Dedicate Historical MarkersCourts & policyEqual Justice Initiative
- ‘First in the nation’ intensive reentry program introduced at Red Onion supermax prisonReentry & jobsCardinal News
- Third Homicide in Eight Months at Alabama PrisonPrisonsEqual Justice Initiative
- Over a Quarter Million Virginians Excluded from Primary ElectionCourts & policyThe Sentencing Project
- Dozens celebrate second chance as Santa Barbara reentry program graduates formerly incarcerated peopleReentry & jobsNews Channel 3-12
- Osborne Association launches kinship reentry program for the formerly incarceratedReentry & jobsBuffalo Toronto Public Media
- Second Chance Hiring Fair ThursdayReentry & jobsWBRC
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