From statehouse bans to audit workarounds, governments are scrambling to police the license-plate readers they rushed to ...

Neustrelitz Prison is a juvenile facility, but whereas in the United States the word “juvenile” usually refers to those under 18, the 150 men and women at this German institution are almost all ...

Hundreds of federal judges have ruled against the administration’s “mandatory detention” policy, but the Supreme Court may ...

There is no tidy way to kill someone. But for the last century, Americans have searched for a way to carry out the death penalty that minimizes suffering while lessening trauma for executioners and ...

For two months after their arrest, Yerson and Kelly Vargas and their 6-year-old daughter, Maria Paula, were held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, a family detention facility in Texas. One ...

The Trump administration in May quietly altered an obscure prison policy that could give the Department of Justice more power to punish the president’s enemies and reward his allies. A revised Bureau ...

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In 1964, researcher Bruce Jackson traveled to prisons in Texas to record the songs that Black work crews had inherited from their enslaved ancestors. Jackson used a reel-to-reel tape recorder to ...

Reporters Without Borders Sweden honors The Marshall Project for journalism that scrutinizes the U.S. justice system and holds power accountable.

Reem Akkad, formerly a top editor at The Washington Post, has been named managing editor of The Marshall Project, the Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit newsroom that covers the U.S. criminal justice ...

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? Subscribe to future newsletters. Feeding ...