Criminal Justice Reform

At The Appeal, we produce original journalism about criminal justice that engages the public and holds officials to account. We focus on the most significant drivers of mass incarceration, which occur at the state and local level.

We are a nonprofit multimedia information and networking resource based at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. Published daily online, Monday through Friday, our award-winning site is staffed by working journalists in New York, Washington and Los Angeles; and provides comprehensive reporting, informed commentary, and analysis of criminal justice news and research in the U.S. and abroad.

The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system. We achieve this through award-winning journalism, partnerships with other news outlets and public forums. In all of our work we strive to educate and enlarge the audience of people who care about the state of criminal justice.