When concerned residents of the New Orleans metro area stepped out into the streets with their whistles and phone cameras ...

An expanding detention network is being built out across the Midwest. Since Illinois banned immigrant detention, ICE sends ...

Before ICE descended on New Orleans, GOP lawmakers made it a crime to interfere with immigration enforcement.

After Ballard’s fall, the people he helped arrest in Washington want to know why no one seems willing to take a second look ...

At Kentucky’s Northpoint Training Center, incarcerated people are not allowed to participate in programs until they’re at least four years away from their parole board date—robbing people of years of ...

State Senator Julia Salazar argues in a Q&A that policing reforms “have failed” and that funds should be reinvested into other services; she also lays out bills she is supporting to improve ...

Welcome to “Ask the Appeal,” the first in an ongoing series of pieces in which we answer common questions about the criminal legal system—and how it intersects with everyday life. For our inaugural ...

On the hook to repay $1.3 billion of debt this year, the nation’s largest prison telecom company, Securus, is on the verge of bankruptcy. Its failure would represent a remarkable victory for advocates ...

“A normal heterosexual person would not be so offended […] as to murder,” a prosecutor argued in a capital case in the late 1990s in rural Illinois. “I hope you die in prison like all the rest of your ...

In cities across the country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations agents can mine local police reports using COPLINK, a data program little known outside law ...

On July 19, 2018, Arthur called his sister and told her he planned to end his life. At the time he was struggling to find work, he told The Appeal, and “everything was really piling up.” “Because of ...

Gerry Armbruster went to the doctor in May 2014, complaining of tingling and numbness in his arms and hands. He told the doctor how pain in his legs was making it hard to walk, too. “I knew something ...