When corrections officials aren’t forthcoming with records, coroners can offer families the details needed to find closure or ...

A Marshall Project - Cleveland investigation has prompted city officials to stop issuing parking citations that, for years, ...

What do you really know about the lives of the roughly 1.2 million Americans in state and federal prisons? Pop culture tends to overemphasize the violence and chaos while downplaying the monotony of ...

These polarization patterns are also reflected in what crime-reduction strategies people support. While the majority of ...

Some localities are addressing street homelessness with a new approach, which experts say can clear encampments while ...

As soon as Shelly Keene heard rumblings that North Lake Correctional Center in rural Michigan would reopen as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, she got to work on a list of ...

Increased enforcement and Trump’s policy changes are causing some people to remain in abusive relationships rather than risk ...

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

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? Subscribe to future newsletters. Latoya Dickens ...

In the three decades since Florida sent Gerald Delane Murray to death row for murder, he has watched the case against him crumble. DNA evidence prosecutors used to link him to the crime was handled so ...

News Inside Issue 21 presents stories of connection, resistance and hope amid deteriorating conditions and discriminatory policies.

Charles Caldwell was never meant to have a voice. Mississippi’s White ruling class made sure of it. He was part of Mississippi’s silenced majority in 1860 — 436,600 enslaved people to 354,000 White ...