It was the second time Missouri officials had denied someone their spiritual adviser in their dying moments. Yet, the state ...

The killing of a Minneapolis woman is latest by ICE and Border Patrol officers in recent months. Others have been wounded or ...

Criminal defendants are overwhelming an understaffed state mental health system that, a few years ago, served thousands more patients.

ICE wants to detain more than 100,000 people at a time, but the historic ramp up has been slower than Wall Street expected.

The Trump administration’s deployments of federal agents and National Guard troops to cities across the country, in the name of reducing crime, are having the opposite effect, according to local ...

New Year’s Day is observed very differently by men with long-term prison sentences. Each of us is doing time. I decided to ...

As a young girl growing up in Missouri, Megan Jolly loved to read, dance and dress up. For her 20th birthday, she and her mother wore formal gowns to dinner on a cruise ship to Cozumel, Mexico. She ...

When Alan Lancaster died in January 2023 at South Central Correctional Center in Licking, Missouri, his family went looking for answers. The Missouri Department of Corrections recorded his death as an ...

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. In theory, all of ...

During a support group at San Quentin State Prison in 2019, Rev. Susan Shannon invited more than 30 men into a circle. For weeks, the group had been talking about grief and loss. On this day, Shannon ...