The Power of Sheriffs: Explained - The Appeal
WEBJan 4, 2019 · Similarly, sheriffs today sometimes use their power to excess, violating civil liberties. In Worth County, Georgia, in 2017, the sheriff subjected up 850 high school students at Worth County High School, nearly the entire student body, to invasive drug searches, including checking inside their underwear, according to court documents.
False Confessions, Explained - The Appeal
WEBJun 7, 2021 · A false confession is a statement given by a person that incriminates them in a crime they did not commit. Scientists who study this phenomenon group false confessions into three general categories: (1) voluntary; (2) coerced-compliant, and (3) coerced-internalized. ( ( (There are, of course, myriad of cases where a confession was presented at ...
Felony Murder, Explained - The Appeal
WEBMar 4, 2021 · Felony Murder, Explained. The felony murder rule has a long and complicated history that is worth examining precisely because it’s not that simple. The sight of the United States Capitol shrouded in tear gas, besieged by rioters marauding toward a joint session of Congress, shocked the national conscience. Five people died at the riot, and in ...
The Criminalization of Homelessness: Explained - The Appeal
WEBJun 29, 2018 · The most straightforward path to ending the criminalization of homelessness runs through state legislatures. State and local officials should refrain from passing new laws that target homeless individuals, and they should repeal existing laws that criminalize life-sustaining and necessary behaviors.
Bail Reform: Explained - The Appeal
WEBJun 14, 2018 · Jessica Brand, Jessica Pishko. Jun 14, 2018. In San Francisco, 64-year-old Kenneth Humphrey spent a year in jail, held on a $350,000 bond he could not pay, after being accused of entering a man’s home and stealing $7 and a bottle of cologne. In setting Humphrey’s bail amount, the trial court made no inquiry into his ability to pay or any ...
Hurricane Milton Threatens Florida Jails and Prisons - The Appeal
WEB4 days ago · Hurricane Milton unleashed winds up to 140 miles an hour and catastrophic flooding in Central and Southern Florida. Thousands of people under mandatory evacuation orders fled their homes. The storm’s magnitude brought one hurricane specialist, John Morales, to tears on a local news broadcast. Morales, one of the state’s most well-respected meteorologists, warned viewers that climate change ...
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WEB6 days ago · Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg. Jul 09, 2024. Exposing the harms of the criminal legal system and elevating solutions that keep all people safe. The Appeal is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to exposing how the U.S. criminal legal system fails to keep people safe and perpetuates harm.
Locked In, Priced Out: How Prison Commissary Price-Gouging …
WEBApr 17, 2024. Today, The Appeal published Locked In, Priced Out, a project that includes a first-of-its-kind database of prison commissary lists from 46 states. This project also examines the availability, prices, and markups of products across several categories, including food, hygiene, and religious items.
Incarcerated Transgender Women’s Lives Must Matter
WEBJan 28, 2019. When Kamala Harris announced her run for president on Jan. 21, a reporter asked her about the 2015 case of Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, a trans woman incarcerated in California’s prison system who petitioned prison officials to grant her request for gender affirming surgery. In 2015, Harris was California’s attorney general and ...
People Of Color Receive The Harshest Punishments, And The …
WEBDec 4, 2019 · Spotlights like this one provide original commentary and analysis on pressing criminal justice issues of the day. You can read them each day in our newsletter, The Daily Appeal. A new report from the Council on Criminal Justice takes a close look at the rates of incarceration for different racial groups. While disparities have gone down, Black and Latinx people continue to be incarcerated at ...