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 ...

Strip Searches Have a Racist, Dehumanizing Legacy Strip searches serve as weapons of humiliation rather than security measures. Kentucky Department of Corrections / YouTube ...

After mystery illnesses and toxic reports, prisoners at California’s Mule Creek State Prison worry their water is killing them.

Trump's Justice Department has removed questions about gender identity and trans people from at least four federal surveys.

A letter obtained exclusively by The Appeal says Trump’s Department of Justice has defunded the Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center.

Micaela Romero studies the neuroscience of solitary confinement and isolation at the University of Washington.

The “shoplifting panic” myth let cops buy facial recognition software, drones, license plate readers, surveillance tech, and more.