When corrections officials aren’t forthcoming with records, coroners can offer families the details needed to find closure or ...

These polarization patterns are also reflected in what crime-reduction strategies people support. While the majority of ...

Some localities are addressing street homelessness with a new approach, which experts say can clear encampments while ...

Increased enforcement and Trump’s policy changes are causing some people to remain in abusive relationships rather than risk ...

A Marshall Project - Cleveland investigation has prompted city officials to stop issuing parking citations that, for years, ...

News Inside Issue 21 presents stories of connection, resistance and hope amid deteriorating conditions and discriminatory policies.

For example, when a person previously convicted of a violent crime is later convicted of theft, it represents an incidence of recidivism. However, it could also indicate desistance, a step away from ...

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) has a host of policies controlling which books people can have in prisons, how they can get them, and what they can do with them.

For years, the public had no way to know just how many people died in Missouri’s prisons, a Marshall Project investigation found, because the state Department of Corrections wasn’t counting. “Deaths ...

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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