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.

Reporting by The Marshall Project - Cleveland leads to sentencing of former longtime Judge Leslie Ann Celebrezze for steering ...

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 ...

The details of the immigration raid were jarring: On Oct. 19, 2025, more than 200 local, state and federal law enforcement officers descended on a horse racing track in Wilder, Idaho, where hundreds ...

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

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. “Medicine ...

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 ...

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 ...