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 ...

“If You Want to Live, Don’t Drink the Water” After mystery illnesses and toxic reports, prisoners at California’s Mule Creek State Prison worry their water is killing them. Nathan Blalock ...

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.

In half the country, sex offense civil commitment incarcerates people after they complete their prison sentences.

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.