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 ...

CoreCivic CEO: Trump Administration Plans Will ‘Supercharge’ the Private Prison Industry In a quarterly earnings call, the private prison company told investors that it plans to expand its operations ...

Trump's Justice Department has removed questions about gender identity and trans people from at least four federal surveys.

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

Prosecutors have filed or are considering filing 187 charges against 66 pro-Palestine, anti-Israel campus protesters from Gaza encampments.

Micaela Romero studies the neuroscience of solitary confinement and isolation at the University of Washington.

The “shoplifting panic” myth let cops buy facial recognition software, drones, license plate readers, surveillance tech, and more.

Federal prosecutors have filed charges against at least two people for allegedly damaging Tesla property and are seeking five-year sentences.

Trump's executive order eliminating transgender rights in prison will hurt or kill trans prisoners, experts warn.

LA’s Wildfires Threaten Almost 40 Prisons and Jails. Here’s How They’re Responding. The Appeal contacted 38 facilities to ask how they’re preparing for air quality issues and possible evacuations and ...