In March 2018, J’Allen Jones, a 31-year-old Black man incarcerated at Garner Correctional Institution in Connecticut, died after refusing to comply with a strip search. When officers told Jones he ...

Strip searches serve as weapons of humiliation rather than security measures.

During the last years of his life, Shane Kendall, an autistic teenager, was locked up inside Atlanta’s notoriously dangerous Fulton County Jail. In an interview, his parents told The Appeal that when ...

Dr. D. Pulane Lucas is the mother of Stanley T. Wilson, Jr. Stanley was a scholar, student leader, track star, and football player at Stanford University who went on to play in the National Football ...