Prison abolitionist art creates a future to briefly live in, and from that place, turn and look at our present.

Experts say “investigative hypnosis” often leads to false testimony, but Texas courts have refused to hear Charles Flores’s ...

Prison abolitionist art creates a future to briefly live in, and from that place, turn and look at our present.

At least three women made police reports about Girls Do Porn in 2015, but recruiters continued to exploit women until the FBI stepped in last month. On Oct. 10, the operators of popular pornography ...

After decades in prison, two men found not guilty of murdering a police officer but sentenced to life anyway are coming home. On Jan. 17, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 ...

Johnny Perez draws on the wisdom of thirteen years of direct involvement with the criminal justice system in his work as the Director of the U.S. Prisons Program for the National Religious Campaign ...

State Senator Julia Salazar argues in a Q&A that policing reforms “have failed” and that funds should be reinvested into other services; she also lays out bills she is supporting to improve ...

The third edition of The Badge, an ongoing Political Report series on the powers of sheriffs, looks at a site of heated political battles: policing. First elected in 2004, Sheriff Morris Young of ...

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, ...

Last week, The Appeal broke news on documents revealing that Memphis police were surveilling Black Lives Matter activists and distributing dossiers on individual protesters among law enforcement.

This piece is a commentary, part of The Appeal’s collection of opinion and analysis on important issues and actors in the criminal legal system. In 2010, a strange essay called “Judge Stories” ...