Civil rights groups are demanding that Atlanta City Council members vote at today’s meeting on a contract for pre-arrest ...

Trump’s plans are more extreme, and the tools advocates used to limit harm during his first term may not be effective.

Democrats spent the last four years running away from police reform and instead chanted "fund the police." They lost.

The Appeal and other news outlets spent years reporting on dangerous conditions inside Atlanta, Georgia's Fulton County Jail.

Mayor Andre Dickens’ office initiated a secret bidding process for community responders—that left out the current beloved ...

Even though the United Nations considers more than 15 days of solitary confinement a form of torture, American prisons still use the practice.

After a moral panic about crime, San Francisco’s billionaires and political leaders demanded more arrests. Pretrial detainees are now seeing the harmful effects. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke ...

Over the past year, hundreds of thousands of college students across the country banded together to demand an end to the U.S.-backed attacks on Gaza, which have killed tens of thousands of ...