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 ...

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 ...

Brett Hall, the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Wise County and the City of Norton, Virginia, told The Appeal in an email that “no official decisions have been made regarding these specific matters, as of ...

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 ...

Non-Police Crisis Response Programs Have Been Working. Here’s How. After decades of protests over police violence, many cities have created non-police crisis response teams. These unarmed first ...

On Jan. 9, Mia Davis, a 36-year-old Black woman from Tampa, stood in the courtroom of Nick Nazaretian, a judge in Florida’s 13th Judicial Circuit. Her husband Ray sat in the gallery of the Division K ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ayanna Pressley’s Husband Spent 10 Years in Prison. Now He and Pressley Are Fighting for Re-Entry Reform The U.S. representative said her husband helped her realize that when one person is ...