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 ...

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 ...

Voters approved initiatives to expand voting rights and curtail drug criminalization, and they elected new sheriffs and prosecutors who’ve vowed to challenge mass incarceration. The presidential race ...

In Vermont, a pair of reading glasses cost more than $15 in prison, about five times the price a shopper would find at Walgreens. The Department of Corrections contracts with Keefe Group for ...

New York’s Imprisoned Women Brave Risks to Sue Sexual Abusers Under New Law New York’s Adult Survivors Act briefly waives the statute of limitations to file sexual abuse lawsuits. Some of New York’s ...

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

This story was produced with support from The Academy for Justice at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. On Monday, the FBI released its annual report on crime in the ...

Ask The Appeal: Why Do Americans Think the U.S. is Too ‘Soft’ on Crime? According to (admittedly flawed) FBI data, the U.S. is about as safe as it’s ever been. So why is tough-on-crime rhetoric on the ...

As Climate Change Worsens, Deadly Prison Heat Is Increasingly an Everywhere Problem With heat waves sweeping across the country, incarcerated people in states with traditionally milder climates are ...

Introduction Steven Zick was 16 when he was subjected to “initiation” in the South Bend, Indiana juvenile jail. For Steven, “initiation” meant being beaten so badly by the other kids that he had a ...