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 ...

New Hearing for Man Sentenced to Life in Prison Despite Not Guilty Verdict In 2001, a jury found Terence Richardson and Ferrone Claiborne not guilty of murdering a police officer. But, thanks to a ...

LA is Locking Up More Mentally Ill People, Despite Diversion Efforts In 2015, Los Angeles County created a program to reduce the number of mentally ill people trapped in jail. But since then, the ...

Introduction Every morning, Samantha packed her children’s school bags with their clothes, toys, and a toothbrush, uncertain of where her seven-member family would sleep that night. Her brother’s car, ...

Interrupting Business as Usual Securus was initially formed in 2004 after the merger of two smaller correctional telecom corporations. The company changed private equity hands several times before ...

Ask The Appeal: Why Do Americans Think the U.S. is Too ‘Soft’ on Crime? According to (admittedly flawed) FBI data, the U.S. is about as safe as it’s ever been. So why is tough-on-crime rhetoric on 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 ...