Fresh investigative reporting, media from other independent outlets, and stories from the archives. Since The Appeal has ...

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 the morning of Nov. 23, 2004, Malaika Brooks was driving her 11-year-old son to school when Seattle police pulled her over for speeding. When the officers gave her a ticket and asked her to sign it ...