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 ...

On Sept. 30, 1962, a mob of about 2,000 white supremacists descended on the University of Mississippi campus, many of them armed with shotguns and pistols. Their rioting over the admission of James ...

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

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

In 2020, Jonathan Arther sued a dozen state officials and employees of the Arizona prison where, he says, his medical care was bungled so badly that he went blind in one eye. He also sued Corizon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Arizona’s proposal, ...