Documents obtained by The Appeal show law enforcement warning of a “strong possibility” of anti-police violence by student protesters at Cal Poly Humboldt ahead of a sweep that led to mass arrests.

Last year, the Louisiana Office of Juvenile Justice began transferring children to Angola prison's old death row. The ACLU is now suing.

An official investigation released this week concluded that “medical neglect” contributed to Alan Willison’s death at the Clayton County Jail in January, just a week after his cancer diagnosis.

Children incarcerated at Louisiana's Angola prison have been locked in windowless cells for nearly 24 hours a day as heat indexes spike.

The Appeal's 9-month investigation uncovered prison commissaries’ exploitative, inconsistent systems with inside prices up to five times higher than in the community and markups as high as 600...

An upcoming court ruling could decide the fate of a plan to detain “problematic youth” at a facility that previously housed prisoners awaiting execution.

Advocates say laws that land people with HIV on the sex offender registry are outdated and dangerous.

The facility’s medical provider described people with mental illness wasting away in a unit overrun by an outbreak of lice and scabies.

A suit filed this week accuses Broome County Jail staff of using threats of punishment to "create a culture of fear" that forces pretrial detainees to submit to unpaid labor.

Like her Democratic mayoral counterparts in Portland, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and New York, Lightfoot has condemned police violence outside her borders, while using law enforcement to suppress demons...

As advocates fight to provide relief to incarcerated people, officials are resisting many measures that could help prisoners combat the heat.

Blind in one eye and at risk of losing vision in the other, 58-year-old Reginald Randolph is now on the verge of being sent to state prison.

Shane Kendall's father says in a new lawsuit that the medical staff at Atlanta, Georgia's Fulton County Jail let his autistic son die.

The horrific experiences of women at a Virginia prison fit a broader pattern of neglect across the country.

A horrific death and the high-profile booking of former President Donald Trump propelled Georgia’s Fulton County Jail into the national spotlight. But heightened scrutiny has done nothing to improve...

Exposing the harms of the criminal legal system and elevating solutions that keep all people safe.

The bill requires people be held on bail for dozens of new, small-time charges—and virtually eliminates charitable bail funds.

Virginia’s Department of Corrections has recently settled two lawsuits over its use of solitary confinement—a practice lawmakers are moving closer to abolishing.

Advocates say laws that land people with HIV on the sex offender registry are outdated and dangerous.

Less than five months into 2024, deaths at the Clayton County Jail have already surpassed last year’s total. The local sheriff’s lack of transparency has only compounded the pain for grieving...

When I was 19, I worked in an emotional support classroom in a North Philadelphia elementary school. I saw children as young as five get treated like prisoners.

Police and prosecutors will now be tasked with enforcing state anti-abortion laws.

The move is part of a broader criminal justice reform bill that also ends prison gerrymandering, and mandates body cameras for all police departments.

A new court order allows the lawsuit by Max Gracia's family to proceed, and may lead to holding jail staff accountable.

No system designed to make money by subjugating people intends to rid us of those harms. Abolition is a vision for the future.

The proposed legislation would expand the city’s public mental healthcare system using funds reallocated from the police budget.

All but nine of California’s 35 prisons house more people than the facility was designed to hold.

Lawsuits that challenge mental healthcare and medical care for incarcerated people advance in Illinois.

Police gave Alex Mingus an award for saving a shooting victim's life. Mingus showed up wearing a shirt that said “Smash white supremacy”.

A man with multiple medical conditions incarcerated on a technical violation urgently needs to be released, his attorney says.

The ACLU says in a new lawsuit that South Carolina's ban on prison media interviews violates the First Amendment.

A man is serving two life sentences for a crime that, according to his legal team, never occurred.

Incarcerated people are being disciplined because their disability makes it impossible to comply with prison rules.

Students nationwide face harsh repression from university administrators and the police, but they’re not backing down.

The facility’s medical provider described people with mental illness wasting away in a unit overrun by an outbreak of lice and scabies.

There’s a cynical local-to-national news pipeline designed to mock the powerless under the guise of “odd” news stories.

Deaths at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta have quadrupled in 2022. But Fulton County may cut funding to the pre-arrest diversion program.

Mayor Ted Wheeler’s popularity has declined after a summer of protests against police violence in the Oregon city.

An uptick in murders and a full-blown media panic has all but killed reform efforts. It’s important to understand this quick and cynical backlash never had anything to do with “data.”

A Department of Justice memo from January could have a devastating effect on many federal prisoners who have been released on home confinement.

Men in a Pennsylvania solitary confinement unit at SCI Fayette said in a lawsuit that the conditions in the unit gave them severe trauma.

Women with mental illness are left in isolation and filth, and often placed in solitary confinement, according to a suit against the Fulton County sheriff.

Legal groups filed a lawsuit to ban solitary confinement for extended periods of time,or if someone have mental illness in Pennsylvania.