With a six-fold jump in children in detention, advocates allege harrowing conditions are putting kids’ lives at risk.

A former judge admits to guilt in a criminal case sparked by reporting by The Marshall Project - Cleveland. Sentencing will be at a later date.

In the days after Pretti’s killing, a pair of protesters in Maine told The Atlantic that ICE agents showed up at their home ...

A reform bill that would set up an oversight committee to review each prison death comes after a joint news investigation by several local outlets.

Incarcerated people and advocates reported scarce food and water, interrupted access to medical care, and the inability to ...

Roughly 350,000 Haitians are in the U.S. through legal status granted because of natural disasters and armed conflict in ...

Jail administrators fail to fix mistakes that continue to cost lives, an analysis of state records by The Marshall Project - ...

The civil rights law that has allowed lawsuits against local and state police doesn’t apply to federal agents.

A mother and her 5-year-old daughter went to a Chicago laundromat this fall, expecting it to be a regular day. But as they were washing their clothes, the mother said, they were surrounded by 20 armed ...

After shooting people, federal agents repeatedly failed to provide first aid, and officials spun narratives disproven by ...

From immigration to the death penalty and beyond, here are some of the administration’s key changes in criminal justice.