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

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

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

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.

Democrats spent the last four years running away from police reform. “Funding the police” didn’t just help them lose the presidency—it handed a dangerous man an even stronger police and surveillance ...

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 ...

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