Strip searches serve as weapons of humiliation rather than security measures. In March 2018, J’Allen Jones, a 31-year-old ...

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During the last years of his life, Shane Kendall, an autistic teenager, was locked up inside Atlanta’s notoriously dangerous Fulton County Jail. In an interview, his parents told The Appeal that when ...

Earlier this month, federal immigration agents arrested gubernatorial candidate Newark City Mayor Ras Baraka outside an immigration detention facility, sparking national headlines and widespread ...

Body camera video shows that Daniel Prude was complying with police when they knelt on his back and pushed his face to the ground for so long that he stopped breathing. A screengrab from the body ...

Dr. D. Pulane Lucas is the mother of Stanley T. Wilson, Jr. Stanley was a scholar, student leader, track star, and football player at Stanford University who went on to play in the National Football ...

In a nation with over half a million elected officials, the spotlight rarely shifts away from 537 individuals who work under the Capitol Dome or in the White House. The nationalization of U.S.

Although the new law took effect in January, state data showing how courts are applying it won’t be available until July 2021. And without funding, courts in small towns and villages may never collect ...

Everyone who has ever watched a crime procedural believes that forensic science is the most reliable way to tell whether someone is guilty or not. But is that true? The reality is that a lot of ...