The Appeal's 9-month investigation uncovered prison commissaries’ exploitative, inconsistent systems with inside prices up to five times higher than in the community and markups as high as 600...

The move follows the police killing of George Floyd and more than a week of uprisings, where hundreds of thousands of people around the world have protested against police violence, and abusive...

The intense backlash to his recent comments criticizing $2,000 stimulus checks signals the growing momentum for guaranteed income programs—and the emerging power of voters who care more about...

Under the proposal, localities would be incentivized to significantly decrease prison populations

Cyntoia Brown was convicted of murder after she shot a man when she was 16. On Aug. 7, she'll be free after Gov. Bill Haslam granted her clemency.

The City Council voted to buy one hotel and use funds diverted from its police budget to set up wraparound services for the homeless people who will live there.

A reasonable society does not meet trauma with more trauma in the name of justice.

Mail delivery has been cut off at the Mar Vista Gardens public housing complex, and residents must now collect their mail more than a mile away.

Sheriff's deputy’s son took an interest in black metal and pagan social media pages, which had connections to neo-Nazism and white supremacy.

Prude died in Rochester back in March while in police custody. Body camera footage of the incident surfaced Wednesday that showed the struggle before his death.

Instead of building ‘humane jails’ to replace Rikers Island, let’s push the NYPD to cut down on arrests.

"Why didn’t you just tackle him?” said his mother, Golda Barton. “He’s a baby. He has mental issues.”

City officials have never explained why Officer Adrian Schoolcraft was forcibly hospitalized by his bosses.

Children incarcerated at Louisiana's Angola prison have been locked in windowless cells for nearly 24 hours a day as heat indexes spike.

Bail will be set at $0 for most misdemeanors and low-level felony offenses.

To make informed decisions about public safety, we must first understand what FBI crime data can and cannot tell us.

The girl's mother said her daughter got increasingly sick after being held in "freezing" cells.

Attorney Carlos Moore calls Lanekia Brown's jail death "suspicious."

Critics say that Arlington County Commonwealth Attorney Theo Stamos, who is being challenged in a June primary, has a pattern of treating children too harshly.

A review of the Facebook accounts of thousands of officers around the US — the largest database of its kind — found officers endorsing violence against Muslims, women, and criminal defendants.

Gov. Ralph Northam will be introducing a bill to abolish the death penalty that, if successful, would make Virginia the first Southern state to end capital punishment.

The video made national headlines: A behavioral therapist seen with his hands up, lying in the street next to his autistic patient.

Nashvillians voted overwhelmingly to amend Metro's governing document by creating a new citizen-led panel to oversee the actions of police

His fame saved his life.

In the nation’s incarceration capital, activists push for a prosecutor who will make sweeping reforms.

Breonna Taylor was killed nearly three months ago during a no-knock raid. All 26 members of the Metro Council have signed on as co-sponsors to “Breonna’s Law,” which would ban them.

The official was relieved of his command after City Council investigators amassed evidence that he posted vitriolic messages online under the name “Clouseau.”

Looking for some great news after Tuesday's midterms? Meet the #Houston19.

At least 42 people have been charged with "domestic terrorism" under the state's wide-ranging statute. Legal experts are calling it a "sloppy" and unprecedented attack on constitutional rights to...

The city’s public defenders say detainees need reliable access to soap and hand-sanitizer.

A new report details Alabama’s “War on Marijuana” ahead of a key DA election.

A recently revealed image by The Intercept shows a "mass trial" of some 40 immigrants in...

A claimed victory in Kentucky and wins in Virginia mean hundreds of thousands of people could have their right to vote restored.

Wesley Bell said he made three changes but declined to describe them. He said 'we wish the three individuals well.'

A Jacksonville mom said an overzealous police officer trying to teach her son a lesson put the 11-year-old in handcuffs when he wouldn't stop bouncing a basketball after a JaxPAL game.

In January 2018, Brittany Smith killed a man who she said brutally raped her twice. A grand jury later handed down a murder indictment. She now faces life imprisonment and challenges getting mental...

Conditions at immigrant detention centers and deaths of migrant children like Jakelin Caal Maquin have received enormous attention as well as analysis describing the caging of children as unprecede...

The NYPD Unit that monitored the Proud Boys event has a troubled history including shooting a mentally ill man and suppressing peaceful protest.

The teen thrown to the ground by an off-duty Tacoma police officer working security at the Tacoma Mall and her brother were awarded more than half a million dollars Thursday in federal court.

A Harris County inmate died after apparently hanging herself in a common area of the jail...

A Pineville, North Carolina mom of two, who is weeks away from giving birth to twins, is outraged and humiliated after she says she was accused of trying to shoplift items under her shirt at her...

Raimundo Atesiano, the former Biscayne Park police chief who directed his officers to frame innocent black men for a series of unsolved burglaries, admitted he wanted to appease community leaders and...

On Wednesday, the officers involved in Morris’s death were cleared of criminal wrongdoing by the Arkansas State Police and prosecutors.

A Massachusetts college is investigating after campus police were called to investigate a black student who was quietly eating her lunch in a common room.

Washington, D.C., is joining Maine and Vermont in allowing incarcerated people to vote.

A new lawsuit says Riverside County’s probation officers threaten to prosecute kids for ‘pre-delinquent’ behavior.

Bush’s victory in Missouri’s First Congressional District makes her the first Black woman elected to represent Missouri in Congress.

In 1996, Michele Benjamin was sentenced to life without parole for killing a man who she said solicited her for sex and menaced her with a weapon. A Supreme Court decision led her to be re-sentenced...

The mother is facing a slew of charges, but Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams will be calling for those charges to be dropped when he comes to the center later Monday morning.

A Q&A with Jim Hingeley, who is running in Albemarle County, Virginia: “I saw families that were torn apart, and I saw the consequences of that."

More than 200,000 people regain their voting rights, and advocates vow further action. “To vote has value to the soul,” a New Jersey advocate said at a signing ceremony.

Like many who are now incarcerated, I was the victim of a miscarriage of justice. I got lucky, but because of dysfunctional, discriminatory rules, most don’t.

His opponent in Tuesday’s primary helped establish new police accountability and court reforms in Ferguson after the police shooting of Michael Brown.

A judge in New York has suspended the release of Herman Bell, a 70-year-old prisoner who has been granted parole after 45 years in prison. Bell was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the...

Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner is fulfilling a campaign promise by pushing for death penalty reform.

A video of two people being removed from a Philadelphia Starbucks has drawn outrage and an "internal investigation" from police after it was posted earlier this week.

Memos obtained by The Appeal and anecdotes from public defenders reveal how, for a week during protests over police brutality, the NYPD stalled cases by directing officers not to testify in court.

In recent years, the number of people federally charged with smuggling and harboring has jumped almost a third.

Simmons, an attorney and person previously convicted of a felony, is fighting to give people a first chance.

Vandalism of the sign tells the story about racism in Emmett Till's life and in present day, a biographer said.

Police killed Jacob Harris, but his friends are serving decades in prison for it. Officials have made inconsistent or false statements about Harris's death.

"Deputy Gangs" within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department have been accused of racism and brutality in dozens of lawsuits.

Bowman has also advocated for an eviction moratorium and for rental payments to be cancelled for the duration of the pandemic.

Exposing the harms of the criminal legal system and elevating solutions that keep all people safe.

Son of incarcerated parents, backed by Black Lives Matter co-founders, Boudin will be the next DA of San Francisco.

Voters approved a ballot initiative to decriminalize low-level drug possession and fund treatment, and a separate initiative to legalize therapeutic psilocybin mushrooms.

The New Jersey Comptroller’s office found that a police training company gave racist, violent advice. Ban pretextual traffic stops instead.

Abolition advocates are celebrating a milestone for racial justice.

The "progressive prosecutor" wanted to transform how California responded to students missing school. Parents like Cheree Peoples wound up paying the price.