This Back to School Season, Kids Face a New Fear: ICE Taking Their Parents

More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.

An Illinois State Police database available online listed personal information, including Social Security numbers.

As a person incarcerated in Texas, I know that rotten food and poor medical care are not unique to Delaney Hall.

As former residents of a California prison, we celebrated its closure but abhorred the punitive transfer process.

Katie Smith, whose murder conviction was based on what’s increasingly seen as junk science, is fighting for her freedom.

A Kansas activist discovered that police tracked him with Flock-style cameras after he wrote an op-ed criticizing them.

The Appeal’s investigation found contracts in nearly every state and the District of Columbia. Find out if your local businesses are working with ICE.

Hundreds of local police departments have received waivers to fly surveillance drones that navigate with AI.

A Georgia judge ordered a new trial for Danyel Smith, who was convicted of a crime that may have never occurred.

Telecom companies also strip privacy en masse from incarcerated people and those who communicate with them.

Lawyers are appealing to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which had urged the release of Leonard Peltier.

In Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity, Valena Beety examines how women and queer people face punishment for their bodily autonomy and gender.

The Washington State Supreme Court will rule on whether Amber Kim, who is trans, can return to a women’s prison.

Public defenders say judges routinely fail to consider whether defendants can afford bail, leaving poor and homeless people jailed on low-level charges. Other counties have already faced civil rights lawsuits.

Todd Sidesinger was taken to Pennsylvania’s York County Prison for unpaid fees. His family says the jail’s medical neglect led to his death just two days later.

People are losing purchased music and games, as well as emails and photographs from loved ones, without compensation.

Faced with transphobia and repression, people imprisoned in Washington State are still finding ways to celebrate Pride.

Even state-level legal protections for trans people have not always extended to those behind bars.

Federal prosecutors charged 15 people with conspiracy, painting their political speech, protest activity, and alleged antifa ties as evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

The uprising at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, has become a focal point for broader resistance to ICE.

Human rights experts condemn the increasing use of weapons like tear gas, pepper balls, and rubber bullets.

At Louisiana’s Angola prison, incarcerated workers are forced to pick crops in dangerous heat. A federal judge ruled last month that a recent Fifth Circuit decision took away his power to help them.

Over 200,000 incarcerated people face deadly summer heat in California and Texas.

Twenty-two states have laws requiring prisons to provide free menstrual products, but not all of them do.

Experts say “investigative hypnosis” creates an unacceptably high risk of false testimony, but Texas courts have refused to hear Flores’s case. Now his life is in the Supreme Court’s hands.

Prison abolitionist art creates a future to briefly live in, and from that place, turn and look at our present.

Find out if your representatives have taken cash from Palantir, the private prison industry, and other companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts.

Six prison systems have implemented free phone calls. A new report examines the impact of free communications.

Pennsylvania requires unanimous approval from a five-member pardon board before people incarcerated on life sentences can ask the governor for clemency.

Private prison executive suggests federal government may buy detention facilities to circumvent state laws.

Maria Montalvo was convicted of murder in 1996 after her children’s deaths in a fire, based on testimony from arson experts. In a petition for a new trial, her attorneys argue that the conviction rests on ‘outdated beliefs and junk science.’

Activists say ending local and state cooperation with ICE is a key way to obstruct Trump’s mass deportation machine.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling is part of a nationwide trend to challenge life without parole sentences.

In a ruling earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton blasted the federal prison agency for a pattern of medical neglect after officials ignored his order to schedule an appointment with a specialist for a woman at high risk of breast cancer.

A new facility celebrated by Gov. Gavin Newsom will disrupt prisoner-led programming and normalize our captivity.

The vitriol of Trump’s anti-trans attacks has stoked anti-trans violence by prison staff and other incarcerated people.

Last week, Pennsylvania’s highest court ruled that automatic sentences of life without parole for people charged under the felony murder doctrine constitute “cruel punishments” under the state constitution.

ICE raids and cutbacks to personal care services are leaving seniors and disabled adults scrambling for in-home aid.

From voting rights to wages to housing assistance, these officials advocate for systemic change to reduce incarceration.

A lawsuit filed by Disability Rights Pennsylvania says that the state’s prison system restricts access to insulin pumps and glucose monitors, putting people with Type 1 diabetes at risk of death or serious injuries.