In a ruling earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton blasted the federal prison agency for a pattern of medical ...

The state's highest court ruled that automatic life without parole sentences for felony murder violated the Pennsylvania ...

A new facility celebrated by Gov. Gavin Newsom will disrupt prisoner-led programming and normalize our captivity.

The vitriol of Trump’s anti-trans attacks has stoked anti-trans violence by prison staff and other incarcerated people.

The vitriol of Trump’s anti-trans attacks has stoked anti-trans violence by prison staff and other incarcerated people.

Through fees and forced labor, sheriffs typically exacerbate the financial costs of incarceration, but they could also mitigate them. Photo illustration by Elizabeth Brown. Photo from Getty Images.

Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestine activist arrested in New York City over the weekend, is being detained at one of the most dangerous immigration jails in the country. News outlet Zeteo reported that ...

Lindsay lay on her back, restraints pinning her arms and legs to a thin vinyl mattress. It was 2019, she told The Appeal, and she could see a narrow window but nothing beyond it. The cell at San ...

Our criminal justice system is broken. America has the highest incarceration rate in the world with 2.2 million people in its prisons and jails. The quality of justice that a person receives more ...

After decades of protests over police violence, many cities have created non-police crisis response teams. These unarmed first responders typically answer 911 calls for people having mental health ...