Multiple groups have now urged President Biden to save the 40 people on federal death row before Trump returns to power.

It’s hard enough to make time to take care of ourselves as hard-working adults. And none of us do our best work when we are not the best versions of ourselves. So, we create time to take care of ...

When we relaunched The Appeal as a new nonprofit organization, we knew we legally needed a Board of Directors, but we were wary. We’d all had bad experiences with external boards that either abused or ...

Nearly half of all American adults have had an immediate family member incarcerated. On any given day, nearly 2 million people, disproportionately Black and brown people, are detained in U.S. jails ...

The criminal legal system operates primarily at the local and state levels, so The Appeal takes a multi-local approach to our journalism, covering issues that impact local communities and elevating ...

Journalists have asked us countless times to share more about how we’ve created a democratic, care-centered workplace—and how they can apply that to their newsrooms. We’ve put a lot of time, energy, ...

The federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday allowed portions of Idaho’s “abortion trafficking” ban to take effect. Now, Idaho may resume criminalizing adults who “harbor or transport” anyone ...

Gregory Sharkey spent 15 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Will Spokane, Washington's police and prosecutors be ...

Gregory Sharkey spent 15 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. He was finally freed last month—but will those responsible for caging him be held accountable?

Christopher William Blackwell, 41, is a Washington-based award-winning journalist currently incarcerated at the Washington Corrections Center. He is serving a 45-year prison sentence for taking ...