Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

Topics. Policing; Pretrial; Prosecution; Punishment; Criminalization; Politics; Alternatives; Newsletter; Community Policing Is Not the Answer. Investing billions of government dollars into programs ...

In the universe of legal cases impacted by anti-LGBTQ+ bias, there are few more notorious than Calvin Burdine’s. Though Burdine is most commonly known as the defendant in Texas’s “sleeping lawyer” ...

Introduction. Every morning, Samantha packed her children’s school bags with their clothes, toys, and a toothbrush, uncertain of where her seven-member family would sleep that night. Her brother’s car ...

When the judge set his bail at $3,000, Jonathan Broad*, 57, thought “All I want is to die free—not in jail.”. Broad was arrested in March 2016 and convicted of “criminal possession of a controlled ...

On the hook to repay $1.3 billion of debt this year, the nation's largest prison telecom company, Securus, is on the verge of bankruptcy. Its failure would represent a remarkable victory for advocates ...

A Myth . A “crime surge” always means money for police, even if the spike in organized retail theft is a myth.. For a handful of years, the most widely cited data on organized retail theft came from ...

Women at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Troy, Virginia, say healthcare at the prison is dangerously inadequate. A decade ago, attorneys filed a class action lawsuit that alleged the ...

The Appeal has created the first national database of prison commissary lists. Using the tool below, you can access full lists from the vast majority of U.S. states and see prices for many products ...

The Department of Justice has terminated all funding for the National Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Resource Center, according to a letter from the National PREA Resource Center obtained by The ...