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 ...

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

Freddie Gray, Five Years Later On the anniversary of the Baltimore Uprising protests, new evidence in Gray’s death uncovers suppressed witness accounts of police brutality. Illustration by Daniel ...

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

To make informed decisions about public safety, we must first understand what FBI crime data can and cannot tell us.

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.” ...

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

As Climate Change Worsens, Deadly Prison Heat Is Increasingly an Everywhere Problem With heat waves sweeping across the country, incarcerated people in states with traditionally milder climates are ...