Ethan Corey is The Appeal’s Research & Projects Editor.
Ethan’s investigative research and reporting has been featured in many outlets beyond The Appeal, including In These Times, The Nation, New York Focus, Retro Report, and BuzzFeed News. Before joining The Appeal in July 2018, Ethan worked as the head of fact-checking at Retro Report.
Lies, damned lies, and crime statistics.
Thousands of deaths in jails, prisons, and police custody have gone uncounted in recent years. Now the DOJ is calling for changes to federal law.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics has suffered from years of poor funding and political interference by the Trump administration. Fixing it could be one of the most important tasks on Biden’s criminal justice reform agenda.
The report found that spread inside correctional facilities contributed to community spread, particularly in California, Florida and Texas.
A growing body of evidence suggests that it’s possible to reduce or even eliminate the use of money bail without increasing crime.
The Department of Justice is leaving researchers, policymakers, and advocates in the dark about deaths in police custody, prisons, and jails.
The state’s law enforcement agencies failed to implement a 2018 data-sharing law. Now officials are struggling to identify high-risk people to release from county jails.
Around one-third of counties in the United States use the tools when making release decisions, but few monitor whether they work as intended.
Nearly half of all arrests in the state are drug or alcohol related, compared to just 29 percent nationally.
In Cook County, Illinois, 99 percent of defendants deemed ‘high risk’ for pretrial violence don’t reoffend.
Prosecutors denounce bail reform efforts when people miss court dates, but ‘failure to appear’ rates obscure the fact that many who miss court aren’t on the run.
New York City has reduced its jail population, but those who remain are staying longer.
A lawsuit brought by a Compton resident detailing an alleged beating by deputies is just one of nearly three dozen federal civil rights lawsuits alleging brutality and racial bias at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Between 2001 and 2017, the department justified officers in 99 percent of use-of-force cases, according to data released through a public records request.