News Inside Issue 22 takes a hard look at how incarcerated women face unique challenges — and why their stories deserve to be ...

Black Mississippians won a Voting Rights Act case that challenges how the state elects supreme court justices. But that ...

A federal lawsuit filed in 2016 argued that the county’s misdemeanor bail system effectively jailed people for being poor, ...

In a prison system rife with drugs, a new civil rights lawsuit accuses the Missouri DOC of punishing people for addiction, rather than treating it.

Law enforcement cameras are popping up everywhere, but many agencies have little safeguards to prevent abuse by individual officers.

Lawmakers brace for a U.S. Supreme Court case that could affect voting rights for Black Mississippians in particular.

Parents and children from a detention center in Texas found themselves dropped at a border town shelter with few means to leave.

Melvin Cancer was killed by guards beating him inside the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, a new report shows.

Shot over two years, the Critics’ Choice-nominated film values quiet moments. “We’re trying to refuse a spectacle,” says director Nimco Sheikhaden.

This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Sign up for future newsletters. The reprieve means ...

Ayanna Harris-Rashid was sitting up in bed, her newborn son latched to her breast, one hand scrolling on her phone, when the police called. She was wanted on a felony charge of child neglect.