A new lawsuit in York County, Pennsylvania, highlights a pattern of allegations of medical neglect by for-profit correctional ...

“Local communities are making it clear from coast to coast,” said Detention Watch Network’s Stacy Suh, “they don’t want ...

The Trump administration’s attacks on journalists have a side effect: further exposing the violence of prisons.

A few days after an argument with her boyfriend led to a 911 call, Ms. L, a mother of two young boys, received an unexpected visit from Child Protective Services (CPS). The caseworker asked her if she ...

For more than 200 days, Fernando Herrera-Cruz has been sitting in a county jail in central Missouri on immigration charges. The conditions in the jail are “very bad,” Herrera-Cruz told Truthout, with ...

The carceral system fails to heal victims and perpetuates trauma by caging human beings. It‘s time to try something else. In 2015, I was raped at Baylor University by someone I knew and trusted. In ...

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 ...

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, ...

Last year, as the pandemic raged, Jane received an eviction notice for failing to pay the rent for her apartment in Durham, North Carolina. Her landlord is one of many across the country who have ...

Over the past decade, a growing number of cities, counties and states have recognized the profound injustice of a cash bail system, in which people who can afford bail walk free while those who can’t ...

Today, The Appeal published Locked In, Priced Out, a project that includes a first-of-its-kind database of prison commissary lists from 46 states. This project also examines the availability, prices, ...