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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department released body camera footage of a deputy’s shooting of a teenager on Wednesday, nearly four months after the encounter, while the boy’s mother was not informed ...

One night in October 2021, Armando Navejas wandered away from his home in El Paso, Texas. The 70-year-old had Parkinson’s disease and dementia, and his family said he could barely speak. Scared for ...

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) has a host of policies controlling which books people can have in prisons, how they can get them, and what they can do with them.

Amairani Salinas was 32 weeks pregnant with her fourth child in 2023 when doctors at a Texas hospital discovered that her baby no longer had a heartbeat. As they prepped her for an emergency cesarean ...

Community advocates and surviving family members also want the sheriff to step aside in two other death investigations involving deputies.