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1 week ago | 
theappeal.org | Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
At least six people at Red Onion intentionally lit themselves on fire last year. Now, prisoners say staff are forcing people to comply—or cutting their electricity.
Besides an overhead light, Sidney Bowman says he hasn’t had electricity in his cell at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison for roughly three months.
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3 weeks ago | 
theappeal.org | Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
Attorney General Pamela Bondi has directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing health insurance executive Brian Thompson. The U.S. Department of Justice said the “murder was an act of political violence.”On Dec. 4, a gunman shot and killed Thompson as he was on his way to an investors meeting in Manhattan. At the time of his death, his annual compensation package was worth over $10 million. On Dec. 9, Mangione was arrested in Pennsylvania.
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1 month ago | 
theappeal.org | Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
For the last nine years, Alishea Sophia Kingdom, a transgender woman, has received hormone therapy. In January, prison staff abruptly stopped her medication, causing her to become hopeless and suicidal. “The distress of losing my care has caused me to experience anxiety, panic attacks, and mood swings, and I have been unable to sleep,” she said in a statement.
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1 month ago | 
theappeal.org | Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
On Friday, three transgender federal prisoners filed a class-action lawsuit against President Donald Trump, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, and other federal prison officials for denying them access to life-saving medical care. On Jan.
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1 month ago | 
theappeal.org | Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
More than a decade ago, Illinois correctional officers allegedly attacked, sexually humiliated, and tortured hundreds of prisoners. At the end of March, a lawsuit filed on the victims’ behalf is finally scheduled to go to trial. In 2015, the Uptown People’s Law Center and other attorneys filed a class action suit against Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) officials and members of the state’s Special Operations Response Team (SORT)—known as “Orange Crush” due to their uniform’s colors.
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1 month ago | 
theappeal.org | Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
GEO Group Chairman George Zoley said the company stands to gain up to $1 billion in additional revenue from detaining and surveilling undocumented immigrants.
On today’s quarterly earnings call, for-profit prison operator GEO Group’s new CEO announced that this is an “unprecedented time in our company’s history.” “We believe the scale of the opportunity before our company is unlike any we’ve previously experienced,” J.
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2 months ago | 
theappeal.org | Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
After half a dozen men at Red Onion State Prison set themselves on fire, the Virginia Department of Corrections asked incarcerated people to sign an agreement that offers incentives—such as a fish fry, free commissary bags, and group recreation—if they don’t harm themselves, says a local civil liberties group.
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2 months ago | 
theappeal.org | Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg |Ethan Corey
In memos released this week, Pam Bondi rolled back Biden-era reforms and called for a crackdown on immigrants and college students.
On Wednesday, newly confirmed U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a flurry of memos that seek to advance President Trump’s oppressive, racist, and violent agenda. The memos can be found here, and we’ve highlighted some common themes below.
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2 months ago | 
theappeal.org | Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
Louisiana moved detained children from the infamous Angola prison to an adult lockup in Jackson Parish. They say the abuse has continued.
Louisiana imprisons young people in an adult jail where they’re attacked by guards, deprived of an education, and kept away from their families, according to statements filed last month in federal court.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
atlanta.capitalbnews.org | Chauncey Alcorn |Madeline Thigpen |Dante Miller |Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
Georgia Democrats were caught off guard Monday during the first day of legislative session when state Senate Republicans voted to reopen their investigation into alleged misdeeds committed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis during her 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump. Sen. Harold Jones, D-Augusta, said day one of the General Assembly’s annual 40-day lawmaking blitz is typically more procedural, but Monday’s start under the Gold Dome was anything but.
