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 ...

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

In 2015, Los Angeles County created a program to reduce the number of mentally ill people trapped in jail. But since then, the number of people with mental illness incarcerated in LA has instead ...

Supreme Court Decision on Prosecutor Sexism Could Give Women New Trials In January, the U.S. Supreme Court said Brenda Andrew, who was convicted of killing her husband in 2004, should possibly get a ...

New York's Adult Survivors Act briefly lifts the statute of limitations for sexual abuse lawsuits. Imprisoned women hope for change.

According to FBI data, the U.S. is about as safe as it’s ever been. So why is tough-on-crime rhetoric on the rise?

In America, judges, juries, and prosecutors can still exhibit clear signs of anti-LGBTQ+ bias when giving people a death sentence.

The Movement to Decriminalize Psilocybin, Explained The latest frontier in drug reform has been the loosening of legal restrictions on psilocybin—the psychoactive compound in “magic mushrooms.” ...

Many cities have created non-police crisis response teams. These unarmed first responders often answer 911 calls for mental health crises.

The use of police dogs enacts cruelty on people of color and the dogs themselves. To fully rid society of slavery, the dogs must be retired.

A letter obtained exclusively by The Appeal says Trump’s Department of Justice has defunded the Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center.