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 ...

Twenty-five years ago, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, known more commonly as the 1994 crime bill. The law established the Department of ...

Decades of evidence demonstrate that the U.S. disproportionately wields the death penalty against the most marginalized—particularly people who are poor, have mental or intellectual disabilities, and ...

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 ...

The Slow Death of a Prison Profiteer: How Activism Brought Securus to the Brink On the hook to repay $1.3 billion of debt this year, the nation’s largest prison telecom company, Securus, is on the ...

Items behind locked cabinets at the flagship Target store in downtown Minneapolis. Chad Davis / Flickr Mission Creep The EFF’s Guariglia said the danger in amassing new tech to stop retail theft is ...

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 ...