Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face inhumane conditions.

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.

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.

Private Prison Exec Calls Mass Deportation Plans ‘Unprecedented Opportunity’ GEO Group Chairman George Zoley said the company stands to gain up to $1 billion in additional revenue from detaining and ...

Trump's executive order eliminating transgender rights in prison will hurt or kill trans prisoners, experts warn.

LA’s Wildfires Threaten Almost 40 Prisons and Jails. Here’s How They’re Responding. The Appeal contacted 38 facilities to ask how they’re preparing for air quality issues and possible evacuations and ...

Emails show Virginia Department of Corrections officials discussing how to punish people at Red Onion State Prison who self-immolated.

Six men at Red Onion State Prison in Western Virginia used “improvised devices” to give themselves electrical burns.

The state launched an investigation after the former chief medical examiner's biased testimony in the George Floyd murder trial. Now, an Appeal analysis finds major flaws in the probe's design.