Abelardo Avellaneda-Delgado died while en route to ICE’s Stewart Detention Center, leaving his family in shock.

Rob Bonta’s career has hinged on the idea that the law can be used to engender social justice. His elevation to California’s “top cop” position, where he will become responsible for the vast ...

In March 2018, J’Allen Jones, a 31-year-old Black man incarcerated at Garner Correctional Institution in Connecticut, died after refusing to comply with a strip search. When officers told Jones he ...

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

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 ...

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 ...