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 ...

When the judge set his bail at $3,000, Jonathan Broad*, 57, thought “All I want is to die free—not in jail.” Broad was arrested in March 2016 and convicted of “criminal possession of a controlled ...

How ‘Alternatives to Incarceration’—Like Probation—Expand Criminalization In September, an Iowa judge sentenced Pieper Lewis, a Black teenager who was trafficked and sexually assaulted, to community ...

‘No Choice But To Do It’ Many of the 230,000 women and girls in U.S. jails and prisons were abuse survivors before they entered the system. Research for The Appeal shows that at least 30 percent of ...

As Support For The Death Penalty Plummets, The Trump Administration Embraces Executions While bans on capital punishment progress at the state level, the federal government is racing to carry out ...

Decades of evidence demonstrate that the U.S. disproportionately wields the death penalty against the most marginalized—particularly people who are poor, have mental or intellectual disabilities, and ...

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 ...

Items behind locked cabinets at the flagship Target store in downtown Minneapolis. Chad Davis / Flickr Mission Creep The EFF’s Guariglia said the danger in amassing new tech to stop retail theft is ...

‘Rage Induced Policing’: Hacked Documents Reveal D.C. Police’s Aggressive Robbery Crackdowns Internal emails and their attachments show that a roving Metropolitan Police Department unit attempted to ...

The Slow Death of a Prison Profiteer: How Activism Brought Securus to the Brink On the hook to repay $1.3 billion of debt this year, the nation’s largest prison telecom company, Securus, is on the ...