U.S. Congressmembers, including Ayanna Pressley, say Joe Biden should grand pardons and commutations before Donald Trump ...

Billie Allen says he is an innocent man on death row. He and his supporters want President Biden to pardon Allen before Trump ...

Advocates say Atlanta mayor is trying to sabotage the city’s contract with a diversion services provider—and the City Council ...

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

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

Billie Allen says he is an innocent man on death row. He and his supporters want President Biden to pardon Allen before Trump takes office.

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 ...

The Appeal has created the first national database of prison commissary lists. Using the tool below, you can access full lists from the vast majority of U.S. states and see prices for many products ...

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 ...