The Appeal InvestigationJustice Why Do People Keep Dying in the Harris County Jail? The Texas jail is bursting at the seams as officials push for more pretrial incarceration. Jessica PishkoThe AppealMarch 9, 2023 InvestigationJustice What Happened When Oakland Tried to Make Police Pay for Misconduct In the ‘90s, the city passed a policy requiring the police department to pay some of their own legal costs. There’s no evidence that the department ever paid up. Akintunde AhmedThe AppealMarch 1, 2022 InvestigationJustice The Defund Movement Aims to Change the Policing and Prosecution of Domestic Violence Though domestic violence is often cited as a reason to maintain the carceral status quo, advocates say there are more humane—and effective—alternatives. Jessica PishkoThe AppealJuly 28, 2020 InvestigationPolitics Prisoners Face ‘Undue Punishment’ as the IRS Claws Back Their Stimulus Checks Legal experts say the IRS is illegally denying CARES Act payments to incarcerated people. Jordan Michael SmithThe AppealJuly 8, 2020 InvestigationHealth, Justice Obscure New Jersey ‘Treatment’ Facility has a Higher COVID-19 Death Rate Than Any Prison in the Country The detainees already completed their criminal sentences—but they are prevented from leaving for years. And with the coronavirus spreading, their lives are at risk. Jordan Michael SmithThe AppealJune 4, 2020 InvestigationHealth, Justice ‘I’m pretty sure I should be going home’ As COVID-19 deaths mount in Michigan prisons, the review of questionable convictions has slowed, leaving prisoners vulnerable to the disease. Aaron Miguel CantúThe AppealMay 21, 2020 InvestigationBusiness, Health, Justice Why Prisoners Get the Doctors No One Else Wants Even after a major class action suit required Illinois to revamp its prison healthcare system, doctors whose alleged neglect resulted in major injury or death still remain on the prison system payroll. Taylor Elizabeth EldridgeThe AppealNovember 8, 2019
InvestigationJustice Why Do People Keep Dying in the Harris County Jail? The Texas jail is bursting at the seams as officials push for more pretrial incarceration. Jessica PishkoThe AppealMarch 9, 2023
InvestigationJustice What Happened When Oakland Tried to Make Police Pay for Misconduct In the ‘90s, the city passed a policy requiring the police department to pay some of their own legal costs. There’s no evidence that the department ever paid up. Akintunde AhmedThe AppealMarch 1, 2022
InvestigationJustice The Defund Movement Aims to Change the Policing and Prosecution of Domestic Violence Though domestic violence is often cited as a reason to maintain the carceral status quo, advocates say there are more humane—and effective—alternatives. Jessica PishkoThe AppealJuly 28, 2020
InvestigationPolitics Prisoners Face ‘Undue Punishment’ as the IRS Claws Back Their Stimulus Checks Legal experts say the IRS is illegally denying CARES Act payments to incarcerated people. Jordan Michael SmithThe AppealJuly 8, 2020
InvestigationHealth, Justice Obscure New Jersey ‘Treatment’ Facility has a Higher COVID-19 Death Rate Than Any Prison in the Country The detainees already completed their criminal sentences—but they are prevented from leaving for years. And with the coronavirus spreading, their lives are at risk. Jordan Michael SmithThe AppealJune 4, 2020
InvestigationHealth, Justice ‘I’m pretty sure I should be going home’ As COVID-19 deaths mount in Michigan prisons, the review of questionable convictions has slowed, leaving prisoners vulnerable to the disease. Aaron Miguel CantúThe AppealMay 21, 2020
InvestigationBusiness, Health, Justice Why Prisoners Get the Doctors No One Else Wants Even after a major class action suit required Illinois to revamp its prison healthcare system, doctors whose alleged neglect resulted in major injury or death still remain on the prison system payroll. Taylor Elizabeth EldridgeThe AppealNovember 8, 2019