Earlier this month, federal immigration agents arrested gubernatorial candidate Newark City Mayor Ras Baraka outside an immigration detention facility, sparking national headlines and widespread ...

The Appeal—and much of the media—has been misspelling Tyré Nichols’ name for years.

Wells shared that Tyré was named by his godmother, Latanya Yizar, who has since passed away. She confirmed that she would ...

State and federal governments have moved to criminalize trans people, parents of trans children, and healthcare providers.

Creating a safe and just pretrial system in Minnesota requires more than small tweaks—we need a ground-up transformation.

Since 2013, changes to state laws, local ordinances, and court rulings have led to bail reforms in 24 states. Each jurisdiction has had its own unique road to reform, but their cumulative experiences ...

Most prisons in America are pretty easy to describe: aging, dilapidated buildings stuffed with a lot of broken people.

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 ...

This story was produced by The Appeal and co-published with Grist. On June 19, Michael Broadway struggled to breathe inside his cell at Stateville Correctional Center, a dilapidated Illinois state ...

“A normal heterosexual person would not be so offended […] as to murder,” a prosecutor argued in a capital case in the late 1990s in rural Illinois. “I hope you die in prison like all the rest of your ...

Today, The Appeal published Locked In, Priced Out, a project that includes a first-of-its-kind database of prison commissary lists from 46 states. This project also examines the availability, prices, ...

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 ...