The Marshall Project is updating the language we use for places where people are confined for immigration enforcement. When we need a shorthand term, we recommend “immigrant camp.” If the place is a ...

If approved by a state court, the number of people sentenced to death nationwide would drop by nearly a third.

Procedural delays create barriers for people seeking new trials, prolonging incarceration by decades and costing taxpayers ...

Fire alarms remain broken at the Joliet Treatment Center, a prison designed to treat people with mental illness.

Getting arrested in Hinds County leaves some people sitting in jail for months or years waiting for formal charges.

Virginia voters will decide whether to automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions. Some advocates ...

This story is part of “Trump Two: Six Months In,” our series taking stock of the administration’s efforts to reshape immigration enforcement and criminal justice. Weeks into President Donald Trump’s ...

Now, a new national study out of one of these collaborations between the University of California, Irvine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital shows that at the peak of the pandemic in 2020, people inside ...

Every month, Telita Hayes adds nearly $200 to the commissary account for her ex-husband, William Reese, who has been in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for 28 years. Each prisoner there is given ...

A Marshall Project/St. Louis Public Radio analysis shows the top causes of death at the jail are untreated medical conditions, drug use or suicide. If someone you know is incarcerated and at risk for ...