On the first day of his second presidential term, Donald Trump severely restricted transgender prisoners’ access to safe housing and proper medical care. Trump’s series of sweeping executive orders ...

This story was published in partnership with Sahan Journal, a nonprofit news organization covering immigrants and communities of color in Minnesota. When leaders in Ramsey County, Minnesota, ...

White voices and victims dominate the genre, which can skew the perception of what constitutes a crime. I called Lowery not long ago to talk about that whiteness, which swamps the genre across books, ...

Voters approved initiatives to expand voting rights and curtail drug criminalization, and they elected new sheriffs and prosecutors who’ve vowed to challenge mass incarceration. The presidential race ...

The latest frontier in drug reform has been the loosening of legal restrictions on psilocybin—the psychoactive compound in “magic mushrooms.” Psilocybin reform is an important development for at least ...

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 high-stakes litigation involves issues ranging from whether the companies deceived the public about climate change to fine points of federal jurisdiction. Big Tobacco’s Master Settlement Agreement ...

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 ...

Internal emails and their attachments show that a roving Metropolitan Police Department unit attempted to suppress robberies in 2012 and 2013 by stopping and frisking and surveilling residents of ...

This story was produced by The Appeal and co-published with Grist. On June 19, Michael Broadway struggled to breathe inside his cell at Stateville Correctional Center, a dilapidated Illinois state ...

“A normal heterosexual person would not be so offended […] as to murder,” a prosecutor argued in a capital case in the late 1990s in rural Illinois. “I hope you die in prison like all the rest of your ...

This article includes photographs that some readers may find disturbing. On April 12, 2015, Freddie Carlos Gray Jr. was arrested in the Gilmor Homes housing development in West Baltimore by three ...