Los Angeles County is one of many places that have struggled to maintain safe conditions for youth and seen reform efforts ...

A Marshall Project and News 5 investigation inspired a bipartisan bill to address the license suspension crisis affecting ...

The sheriff’s department lags behind other agencies by failing to offer a website to help the public quickly learn who’s ...

This practice has always been controversial, especially in communities of color where the use of field interrogations has ...

From feces on the wall to constant gang calls, LaMarr W. Knox details the horrors of the transit unit at New York’s Green ...

For formerly incarcerated activist Dorsey Nunn, the most wonderful time of the year is a holiday bicycle giveaway for kids ...

A prosecutor had been threatening mothers who used drugs while pregnant with long sentences — until Brandy Moore fought the ...

In lawsuits and interviews, people held at Lee penitentiary described correctional officers breaking teeth, fracturing ribs ...

The Marshall Project receives nearly 3,000 letters a year from people behind bars. Each one tells a different story about the ...

Some state and local lockups are facing federal intervention due to problems ranging from filthy cells to violent abuse.

Steven Backstrom was struggling to stay awake during his shift in the prison shoe factory. The machines could be dangerous if ...

Online, in print, and on radio and TV, we delved into prison health care, political views of people behind bars, arrests of ...