Policing Alternatives & Diversion Initiative is still waiting on Mayor Andre Dickens to approve the organization’s contract.

Washington Department of Corrections uses a nebulous victim rights policy to bar incarcerated people from participating in ...

After Republican backlash, the Illinois parole board's work has essentially been frozen. JB Pritzker now barely grants ...

Jail, court, and prison visitors are forced to comply with invasive searches that leave them feeling sexually violated.

Multiple groups have now urged President Biden to save the 40 people on federal death row before Trump returns to power.

It’s hard enough to make time to take care of ourselves as hard-working adults. And none of us do our best work when we are not the best versions of ourselves. So, we create time to take care of ...

When we relaunched The Appeal as a new nonprofit organization, we knew we legally needed a Board of Directors, but we were wary. We’d all had bad experiences with external boards that either abused or ...

Nearly half of all American adults have had an immediate family member incarcerated. On any given day, nearly 2 million people, disproportionately Black and brown people, are detained in U.S. jails ...

The criminal legal system operates primarily at the local and state levels, so The Appeal takes a multi-local approach to our journalism, covering issues that impact local communities and elevating ...

In almost every newsroom, salaries are secretive, inequitable, and contentious. But it doesn’t have to be that way, particularly when you start a newsroom from scratch. At The Appeal, we built a ...

We all know the feeling right before going on vacation: There are a million things to do and not enough time to do them, so you end up working overtime just to be able to take time off. Then, when you ...

As newsroom leaders, we often think a lot about how our organizations embody our values, yet we rarely expect the same from the contractors and external organizations we partner with. But thoughtfully ...