Many of these same companies have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to sitting members of Congress, according to an ...

On GEO Group’s quarterly earnings call on Wednesday, CEO George Zoley called litigation against immigration jails ...

Pennsylvania requires unanimous approval from a five-member pardon board before people incarcerated on life sentences can ask ...

Newsrooms and voters tend to overlook judicial elections—despite the tremendous power judges hold in the criminal legal system. Los Angeles elected its first Black public defender, Holly Hancock, as a ...

This story is being co-published by In These Times and The Appeal. Leading for-profit prison companies donated about half a million dollars to Republican members of Congress currently in office, and ...

Two neighbor kids bang on Sherry Davis’s door. They’ve seen her come home and know she can be counted on for handing out the little packs of Starburst she keeps nearby. Outside, the dingy ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has opened an internal affairs investigation into an Aug. 2 use-of-force incident at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF), ...

The Appeal has created the first national database of prison commissary lists. Using the tool below, you can access full lists from the vast majority of U.S. states and see prices for many products ...

Ethan Corey is The Appeal’s Research & Projects Editor, where he combines investigative research with data-driven journalism to illuminate critical issues in the criminal justice system. Ethan ...

The Appeal and In These Times are publishing a searchable database of campaign contributions made to current members of Congress from the top contractors for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ...

The New Jersey department received slavish media praise after it was disbanded and reoriented toward community policing. But behind the reformist mask was an embrace of surveillance and broken windows ...