From suspended driver’s licenses to jail stays, legal financial obligations can shape lives long after an arrest.

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Adapting to public pushback, the Trump administration is pivoting to expand immigration detention bedspace nationwide.

For more than two decades, Vincent McFadden has been sitting on Missouri’s death row. He’s watched a steady stream of his ...

After The Marshall Project found scores of fires set by men at a Joliet prison, legislators want improved fire safety and ...

Conditions at the youth residential treatment center are so grim that children fled. This is The Marshall Project - Cleveland ...

In a handful of states, lawmakers have reacted swiftly. Last year, legislators in California, Florida, Louisiana and North Carolina stiffened penalties for stealing from stores, adding language to ...

Dale Gibbs awoke to banging on the door of her parents’ home in Ripley, Mississippi, in the early hours of May 15, 1970, just three days before her 19th birthday. Her husband, Phillip, a 21-year-old ...

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. Trump administration officials aim to ...

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Texas’ highest criminal court has halted the execution of Robert Roberson, who had been scheduled to die via lethal injection next week, after being convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter Nikki ...