Creating a safe and just pretrial system in Minnesota requires more than small tweaks—we need a ground-up transformation.

Most prisons in America are pretty easy to describe: aging, dilapidated buildings stuffed with a lot of broken people.

State and federal governments have moved to criminalize trans people, parents of trans children, and healthcare providers.

The Appeal—and much of the media—has been misspelling Tyré Nichols’ name for years.

Wells shared that Tyré was named by his godmother, Latanya Yizar, who has since passed away. She confirmed that she would ...

Creating a safe and just pretrial system in Minnesota requires more than small tweaks—we need a ground-up transformation.

Body camera video shows that Daniel Prude was complying with police when they knelt on his back and pushed his face to the ground for so long that he stopped breathing. A screengrab from the body ...

Earlier this month, federal immigration agents arrested gubernatorial candidate Newark City Mayor Ras Baraka outside an immigration detention facility, sparking national headlines and widespread ...

One of Trump’s first executive orders says federal prisons must house trans women in men’s facilities and directs the government to remove anti-rape protections for trans prisoners. The Appeal studied ...

Joshua Page is an associate professor of sociology and law at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of “The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers’ Union in California.” ...

Formerly incarcerated Californians say that if Gavin Newsom wants to keep touting his record as a “progressive,” he should stop vetoing bills that ban or restrict solitary confinement. Gavin Newsom’s ...

In 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Keva Landrum violated the Constitution when, as a judge, she permitted nearly a dozen Black people to be struck from serving on a jury in a high-profile ...