Jerry Iannelli

The Bureau of Prisons has proposed banning social media—but First Amendment defenders say the rule would chill free speech in federal prison.

Jenkins won’t charge the security guard who shot Banko Brown to death. That’s precisely why San Franciscans elected her in the first place.

Robert Suttle had to register as a sex offender in Louisiana after exposing someone to HIV. He’s moved to New York but still must register.

Newsom’s measure—called “CARE Court”—paves the way for family members, state officials, and first responders to force more unhoused people into court-ordered treatment programs for a period of up to two years.

A writer placed on Georgia’s sex offender registry explains how crushing monthly debts and social stigma trap her in debt.

New York law can leave people who are involuntarily committed financially liable for their hospital bills and ambulance ride

Pieper Lewis was sentenced to community supervision after stabbing one of her abusers to death. But probation only harmed her further.

Multiple major cities including San Francisco and Oakland this year have considered obtaining armed police robots that can kill people.

Women told The Appeal that the practice of removing tampons or pads during strip-searches is degrading, dehumanizing, and sadly common.

Law-enforcement spent weeks scaremongering about opioids showing up in candy this Halloween. Despite the media frenzy, no drugs seem to have actually turned up.

If the Democratic Party wants to run away from those candidates, it will only be running towards its own demise.

For the wealthy backers of the Boudin recall, “progressive” prosecutors are the perfect scapegoat for what they see as threats to a system that treats them just fine.

The racketeering charges against Young Thug, Gunna, andYSL are over-broad, over-stated and unnecessarily harsh

In February, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón became the latest local Democratic politician to fold to conservative critics when he walked back two major campaign promises that had swept him into office just over a year before.

The specific ways in which Frey and other local leaders failed to respond to Floyd’s death seem frankly astonishing when laid out on paper. But the story of this failure is, in fact, the only future offered by the centrist “police reformer” set.

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The ACLU’s ongoing battle to force the Florida Department of Corrections to release the formulas it uses to calculate release dates for imprisoned people.

Two years’ worth of data shows how disproportionately the city’s police and prosecutors target certain neighborhoods.

An amendment to end felony disenfranchisement failed in the House of Representatives. But the measure shows how far the fight has come in a short number of years.