We asked candidates in New Jersey’s June 10 Democratic primary election what they’ll do to keep immigrants safe.

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

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

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

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

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

Welcome to “Ask the Appeal,” the first in an ongoing series of pieces in which we answer common questions about the criminal legal system—and how it intersects with everyday life. For our inaugural ...

White voices and victims dominate the genre, which can skew the perception of what constitutes a crime. I called Lowery not long ago to talk about that whiteness, which swamps the genre across books, ...

In San Francisco, 64-year-old Kenneth Humphrey spent a year in jail, held on a $350,000 bond he could not pay, after being accused of entering a man’s home and stealing $7 and a bottle of cologne. In ...

Addressing extreme housing precarity requires more than rental assistance; it requires an overhaul of the system and redress of the longstanding discriminatory housing policies that led to this moment ...

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 ...