The courts have set a 20-day limit on how long children can be detained. However, the new data shows that since Trump retook ...

Police used the Vallejo, California, rapper’s music against him. He used his jailhouse album to call them out by name.

Deputy Mayor Renita Francois will lead a new office that plans to dispatch more mental health professionals instead of police ...

The 23-year-old Honduran man was legally living and working in the U.S. and had the documents to prove it. The U.S. government had allowed him to enter the country as part of a legal settlement for ...

Although there are still instances of transphobia, I no longer let it break me down,” writes Lexie Handlang. “I feel sorry ...

The United States is experiencing historic drops in crime across almost all categories, including murder, burglary and motor vehicle theft. But crime statistics don’t necessarily change how safe ...

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 ...

Federal agents began immigration enforcement operations in metro New Orleans on Wednesday morning, as part of what the Department of Homeland Security is now calling Operation Catahoula Crunch ...

These graphics are part of “Trump Two: Six Months In,” our series taking stock of the administration’s efforts to reshape immigration enforcement and criminal justice. In the first half of this year, ...

When I started working for Maryland’s Department of Juvenile Services in January 2023, I already had a deep knowledge of the agency’s past. I had previously researched and written about its Civil ...

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. The reprieve means ...