The incarcerated men who produced footage for The Alabama Solution were abruptly transferred to solitary this month.
A 2018 restraint chair death led to a $1.5 million legal settlement. The jail has used restraint chairs more than 1,000 times ...
A 2021 incident in a Missouri prison illustrates the barriers Muslims face practicing their religion behind bars.
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Holly Krig

Those of us who see ourselves in Renee Good can take this moment to deepen our solidarities with all who are policed.
Those of us who see ourselves in Renee Good can take this moment to deepen our solidarities with all who are policed.
At least 32 people died in ICE jails in 2025. Six more have already died in ICE custody during the first three weeks of 2026.
Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for the celebrities detained there, but hundreds of other people at the jail face inhumane conditions. The Metropolitan Detention Center in ...
The Department of Justice has terminated all funding for the National Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Resource Center, according to a letter from the National PREA Resource Center obtained by The ...
Eliseo Padrón is a 50-year-old Mexican American man from St. Paul, Minnesota. Padrón told The Appeal he grew up surrounded by gang culture. He spent his early adulthood in and out of prison. “Living ...
Retail theft has dominated headlines, earnings calls, and political rhetoric for the last few years. Television news shows loop seemingly endless clips of people shoplifting. CEO’s claimed that retail ...
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 ...
Warning: This story contains depictions of self-harm. Six people have burned themselves at Virginia’s infamous supermax Red Onion State Prison since the start of the year, the state’s Department of ...