The call-and-response song was one of many that Black men sang as they toiled on Southern prison farms. This essay is part of ...

In a special edition of Closing Argument, Jamiles Lartey reflects on the region as the nation’s 250th celebration approaches.

In recent decisions, the justices restricted the bipartisan First Step Act that President Donald Trump signed in his first ...

F ifty years ago, in the wake of the 1971 killing of Black Power activist George Jackson, a friend of his at San Quentin ...

Sandra Hafraoui spent months trying to bring her husband home after ICE detained him on a 16-year-old deportation order he ...

A major legal win for Black Mississippians that was supposed to lead to new elections for the state Supreme Court was wiped ...

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

Attorneys for the federal prison system agreed last week to pay $95,000 to a transgender woman who had alleged in dozens of lawsuits that she had been abused and mistreated in its custody by both ...

A criminal court sentenced Harold Doby III to a $155,000 restitution. Falling behind could send him back to prison.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the Bureau of Prisons not to transfer nine transgender women to men’s prisons. These were in addition to the three plaintiff’s identified in the ...

In May, prosecutors in Seattle charged a sheriff’s deputy with raping a 17-year-old girl. The deputy met the teenager while he was an adviser in his department’s youth mentorship program known as ...

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