The killing of a Minneapolis woman is latest by ICE and Border Patrol officers in recent months. Others have been wounded or ...

It was the second time Missouri officials had denied someone their spiritual adviser in their dying moments. Yet, the state ...

Criminal defendants are overwhelming an understaffed state mental health system that, a few years ago, served thousands more patients.

ICE wants to detain more than 100,000 people at a time, but the historic ramp up has been slower than Wall Street expected.

New Year’s Day is observed very differently by men with long-term prison sentences. Each of us is doing time. I decided to ...

The United States is experiencing historic drops in crime across almost all categories, including murder, burglary and motor vehicle theft. But crime statistics don’t necessarily change how safe ...

As a young girl growing up in Missouri, Megan Jolly loved to read, dance and dress up. For her 20th birthday, she and her mother wore formal gowns to dinner on a cruise ship to Cozumel, Mexico. She ...

When Alan Lancaster died in January 2023 at South Central Correctional Center in Licking, Missouri, his family went looking for answers. The Missouri Department of Corrections recorded his death as an ...

This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Sign up for future newsletters. In theory, all of ...

During a support group at San Quentin State Prison in 2019, Rev. Susan Shannon invited more than 30 men into a circle. For weeks, the group had been talking about grief and loss. On this day, Shannon ...

Every year millions of people cycle through America’s prisons and jails. Many of them never make it home. Incarcerated people die of medical neglect. They die because guards beat them or because they ...