Every month, Telita Hayes adds nearly $200 to the commissary account for her ex-husband, William Reese, who has been in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for 28 years. Each prisoner there is given ...

Latif Hafraoui rarely talks about the 108 days he spent in immigration detention, most of it at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey. He and his wife, Sandra, say they want to forget the fear and ...

My friend Donald “Jack” Reitano is dying of liver cancer. It’s my job to keep his memory as a painter and peacemaker alive.

If approved by a state court, the number of people sentenced to death nationwide would drop by nearly a third.

Based on a new law, two men are seeking $2.4 million for their combined 38 years in prison. But Missouri doesn’t want to pay ...

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

Fire alarms remain broken at the Joliet Treatment Center, a prison designed to treat people with mental illness.

Readers who have served 40 years or more said the laws that put them inside never accounted for who they would become.

The live event, produced by The Marshall Project and Musicambia, was introduced by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

In criminal court, families can track arrests. In ICE detention, thousands are moved across state lines within 24 hours, ...

Black drivers made up more than 60% of Bratenahl traffic stops in the village where Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will put ...

A new documentary, “Hell on Hall Street,” shows how community organizations fought to close and, ultimately, demolish the jail known as The Workhouse.