Adam H. Johnson

With Jordan Smith and Liliana Segura of The Intercept.

In two articles, the Times asserts a ‘spike’ in crime since the passage of bail reform in New York, an increase that the articles themselves note they can’t prove.

With journalist Roxanna Asgarian.

Leading with housing status for homeless people is a common trope in the news reporting business and one in urgent need of re-examining.

A wave of sensationalist press is not just coming from New York City, but also from county sheriff and city police departments frustrated by bail reform that they claim is ‘too broad.’

With Appeal staff reporter Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg.

There’s a cynical local-to-national news pipeline designed to mock the powerless under the guise of “odd” news stories.

With Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge, a Type Investigations Ida B. Wells Fellow and Appeal contributor.

Many liberals support reform in theory. But when unpopular decisions need to be made, it’s back to the 1990s “Tough on Crime” playbook.

Sensational headlines may score short-term partisan points, but long term they contribute to a toxic culture of Willie Hortonism.

With Appeal contributor Zachary Siegel, a journalism fellow at Northeastern University Law School’s Health in Justice Action Lab, and Lev Facher of STAT News.

With Daniel Harawa, assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law.

With Danielle Sered of Common Justice

With Appeal staff reporter Lauren Gill

A close examination of a poll backed by a business group reveals loaded questions, undisclosed conflicts of interest, and the shortchanging of very real privacy concerns.

With Civil Rights Corps founder Alec Karakatsanis

With Appeal contributors Julia Rock and Harry August

With journalist Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard

The New York Post used a tragedy to target bail reform activists, rather than point to the challenges of a failed mental health system and poverty.

The Charlotte Observer built a narrative on gun crime that relies almost exclusively on police and prosecutors, ignores the violence of incarceration, and offers zero non-carceral solutions.

Jailhouse informants are a fixture of pop culture, helping TV prosecutors secure convictions in exchange for leniency or other favors. But the public—and by extension, juries—are largely ignorant of just how common, and how damaging, jailhouse informants are to the criminal legal system. This week, University of California, Irvine School of Law professor Alexandra Natapoff […]

With Appeal staff reporter Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg

WJLA’s Kevin Lewis selectively reports on immigrants arrested for sex crimes to paint a misleading picture of violence in Montgomery County.

With Miriam Mack and Elizabeth Tuttle Newman of The Bronx Defenders

With Chesa Boudin, candidate for San Francisco district attorney

In a rare case of local media nuance, a Boston TV news station provided a humane and health-focused segment on safe drug use.

A Pittsburgh public radio piece lacked critical reporting about the many problems with jailing children in adult facilities.

With Appeal contributor Guy Hamilton-Smith and Elizabeth Letourneau of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Kansas City news outlets called scores of people ‘violent criminals’ based solely on the word of police and the federal government.

How high or low bond is isn’t a measure of how severe the state considers a crime.

Murder rates are at an all-time low in Brooklyn, but one would hardly know it reading the New York Times.

The New York Times’s coverage of the one-off case of a 77-year-old man omits key facts about how older adults are treated by our punitive legal system.

Dozens of reports about an indigent man in Bradenton, Florida, showed the cruel excesses of local news’s homelessness coverage.

The backlash is underway against a recent wave of prosecutors who champion criminal justice reform. Here are some methods of attack.

With Appeal contributor Maia Szalavitz

Outlets ran over 200 articles covering the vandalism. The outsize attention will likely damage young lives.

With Appeal reporter Josh Vaughn

ABC News claims anti-police violence is on the rise but offers no data.

Reality shows like ‘The First 48,’ ‘Live PD,’ and ‘Cops’ are interfering in legal cases, exploiting people of color, and threatening lives.

With Appeal contributors Amir H. Ali and Emily Clark of the MacArthur Justice Center