On February 27, the Department of Politics & Policy and Department of Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies hosted the 2025 Black ...

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 ...

The new slavery is a shameful mark on our country’s pretenses to respect for human rights and the dignity of every human ...

Tucked away five miles south of Newton, Iowa, Newton Correctional Facility holds 938 low- and medium-security inmates. The ...

If you’ve never wondered who made the chair you’re sitting on, here’s the answer: prisoners.

Amal was arrested at the young age of 19. Much of his prime was wasted away in prison because our laws in 2001 consigned him ...

I now advocate we move away from ‘reform’ of the problem and towards building solutions outside of it. Speaking about prison abolition to women who have been in prison requires empathy and ...

In Syria, over a thousand people have been killed, the vast majority of them civilians, in a spate of massacres largely targeting the country’s Alawite religious minority. Syria’s longtime ruling ...

A historian answers Bolts readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and ...

When examining social problems like mass incarceration, economic inequality, and community disenfranchisement, the most ...

Pennsylvania’s Board of Pardons on Thursday voted unanimously to grant Marie Scott, who has served 51 years behind bars for ...