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

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

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 ...

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Content Warning: This story contains depictions of sexual harassment and abuse. Kim Brown says she met a lieutenant at New York’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in 1996 or 1997 when she was sent ...

This commentary is part of The Appeal’s collection of opinion and analysis. In Los Angeles, residents of historically Black and Latinx neighborhoods are being pushed out of their homes as the ...

The Department of Justice has terminated all funding for the National Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Resource Center, according to a letter from the National PREA Resource Center obtained by The ...

Steven Zick was 16 when he was subjected to “initiation” in the South Bend, Indiana juvenile jail. For Steven, “initiation” meant being beaten so badly by the other kids that he had a seizure. When ...

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 ...

Last week, The Appeal broke news on documents revealing that Memphis police were surveilling Black Lives Matter activists and distributing dossiers on individual protesters among law enforcement.