Jerry Iannelli
Report/edit stories about cops for the worker-run @theappeal.bsky.social, sometimes union organizer. LA-based. [email protected].
Have We Learned Nothing? | David Klionwww.nplusonemag.com There’s a pervasive censoriousness right now—conservatives denouncing liberals, liberals denouncing leftists, leftists denouncing other leftists—that’s immediately familiar from the days and w...
The Rules of Warwww.discourseblog.com They are being broken profoundly and openly right now. But they still offer a reminder that, despite being capable of horrific violence, human beings are not helpless in its path.
Facing the Climate Crisis From a Texas Prison Celltheappeal.org For the past seven summers, I have lived in solitary confinement without air conditioning. A trip to medical during a heat wave helped put the climate crisis into perspective.
Atlanta Voters Want to Decide the Future of Cop City. Will Their Leaders Let Them?theappeal.org Organizers say they've collected thousands of signatures for a referendum to put Cop City on the November ballot. But local officials seem intent on making sure it doesn't reach a vote.
Milwaukee Judges Tried to Shut Down the City’s Court Diversion Program. No One’s Saying Why.theappeal.org Milwaukee judges tried to end the city's JusticePoint court alternative program. The diversion program doesn't know why—and filed a lawsuit.
Police Killed His Son. Prosecutors Charged The Teen’s Friends with His Murder.theappeal.org Police killed Jacob Harris, but his friends are serving decades in prison for it. Officials have made inconsistent or false statements about Harris's death.
SCOTUS Conviction Ruling Already Harming Innocent People, Lawyers Saytheappeal.org The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Jones v. Hendrix that people can be banned from filing for post-conviction relief, even if they're innocent.
The Two Months I Didn’t Eat: Inside the Longest Prison Hunger Strike in California Historytheappeal.org Ten years ago this month, nearly 29,000 people in California prisons staged a hunger strike to protest solitary confinement.
SCOTUS Conviction Ruling Already Harming Innocent People, Lawyers Saytheappeal.org The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Jones v. Hendrix that people can be banned from filing for post-conviction relief, even if they're innocent.
Nebraska Teen Sentenced to 90 Days in Jail for Self-Managed Abortionjezebel.com Celeste Burgess also got two years' probation for taking abortion pills and burying a stillborn fetus in 2022. Her mother is awaiting sentencing this fall.
The Right’s New Solution To Mass Shootings: Ban Trans People, Not Gunstheappeal.org The blame game against trans people is just one of the many diversionary tactics the right has used in our intractable gun violence debate.
133 Degrees and No AC: Kids at Angola Prison Kept in Potentially Deadly Heattheappeal.org Children incarcerated at Louisiana's Angola prison have been locked in windowless cells for nearly 24 hours a day as heat indexes spike.
133 Degrees and No AC: Kids at Angola Prison Kept in Potentially Deadly Heattheappeal.org Children incarcerated at Louisiana's Angola prison have been locked in windowless cells for nearly 24 hours a day as heat indexes spike.
The Appeal’s Second Anniversary Lettertheappeal.org Two years after its relaunch as a worker-led nonprofit newsroom, The Appeal reflects on its successes, challenges, and hopes for the future.
I Spent Over a Year in Solitary Because of One Man’s Imaginationtheappeal.org The conditions I faced were outrageous. But the prison administration’s justification for keeping me in the hole was even worse.
In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedomtheappeal.org Lacino Hamilton spent 26 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit before being exonerated in 2020 after DNA evidence cleared him.
How Missouri’s ‘Felony Murder’ Law Traps People for Defending Themselvestheappeal.org In Missouri, people charged using the felony murder statute lose the ability to claim they were acting in self-defense.
How Missouri’s ‘Felony Murder’ Law Traps People for Defending Themselvestheappeal.org In Missouri, people charged using the felony murder statute lose the ability to claim they were acting in self-defense.
D.C. Violates ADA By Sending Police to Mental Health Crises: ACLUtheappeal.org A new lawsuit alleges that the city is discriminating against people with mental health disabilities by continuing to send armed officers to mental health calls.
D.C. Violates ADA By Sending Police to Mental Health Crises: ACLUtheappeal.org A new lawsuit alleges that the city is discriminating against people with mental health disabilities by continuing to send armed officers to mental health calls.