Strip searches serve as weapons of humiliation rather than security measures. In March 2018, J’Allen Jones, a 31-year-old ...

We asked candidates in New Jersey’s June 10 Democratic primary election what they’ll do to keep immigrants safe.

Exposing the harms of the criminal legal system and elevating solutions that keep all people safe.

Wells shared that Tyré was named by his godmother, Latanya Yizar, who has since passed away. She confirmed that she would ...

The Appeal—and much of the media—has been misspelling Tyré Nichols’ name for years.

During the last years of his life, Shane Kendall, an autistic teenager, was locked up inside Atlanta’s notoriously dangerous Fulton County Jail. In an interview, his parents told The Appeal that when ...

Creating a safe and just pretrial system in Minnesota requires more than small tweaks—we need a ground-up transformation.

State and federal governments have moved to criminalize trans people, parents of trans children, and healthcare providers.

Creating a safe and just pretrial system in Minnesota requires more than small tweaks—we need a ground-up transformation.