Two weeks later, pathologist Keith Norman Norton, M.D., evaluated the remains of a “well-developed, obese man,” ruling that ...

Over the same five-year period, GEO Group’s PAC (Political Action Committee) outspent CoreCivic and MTC, donating more than $280,000 to current members of Congress. CoreCivic donated more than ...

Families are asking questions about their loved ones’ deaths in custody. The state isn’t answering them.

Rep. Veronica Escobar, a Democrat from El Paso, has been warning federal officials about conditions at the Fort Bliss camp ...

This commentary is part of The Appeal’s collection of opinion and analysis. In Los Angeles, residents of historically Black and Latinx neighborhoods are being pushed out of their homes as the ...

Ethan Corey is The Appeal’s Research & Projects Editor, where he combines investigative research with data-driven journalism to illuminate critical issues in the criminal justice system. Ethan ...

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 seizure. When ...

“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 July 19, 2018, Arthur called his sister and told her he planned to end his life. At the time he was struggling to find work, he told The Appeal, and “everything was really piling up.” “Because of ...