Jamiles Lartey for The Marshall Project

News

Law and disorder: Police oversight and training confront a changing landscape

Marchers cross the Brooklyn Bridge demanding police reform after a commemoration to honor the anniversary of George Floyd's death on May 25, 2021 in New York City.

Society

Incarcerated firefighters do risky, low-pay work. Many say it's the best job behind bars.

Inmates (in orange) help firefighters (L) to extinguish the last embers in the hills of Mandeville Canyon after the Palisades Fire burned part of it in January 2025.

Politics

The true, massive cost of Trump's mass deportation plans

Trump at a campaign rally at McCamish Pavilion on October 28, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Government

The seemingly endless cycle of reforms in juvenile justice

Aerial view of Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey.

News

How efforts to cut long prison sentences have stalled

Inmates at San Quentin State Prison shown from the neck down wearing blue uniforms and navy sweat pants that say "CDCR prisoner" wait in line in 2016.

Politics

5 things to know about Kamala Harris' criminal justice record

US Vice President Kamala Harris makes remarks before a moderated conversation July 17, 2024 in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

News

This ain't just Texas: More states want power to wage 'war' on migrants

Texas Tactical Border Force guardsmen on a bus wait for departure at the Million Air El Paso ELP airport.

News

They're not cops. They don't have guns. But they're responding to more 911 calls.

Crisis responder Chris Jones, left, talks with a community member in Olympia, WA.

Society

Support for holding parents accountable for their children's crimes is growing in the US

James Crumbley, Jennifer Crumbley, and attorneys sit in court for sentencing on four counts of involuntary manslaughter for the deaths of four Oxford High School students who were shot and killed by the Crumbley parents' son.

Society

The food on your table, brought to you by prison labor

Louisiana State Penitentiary prison farm, also known as "Angola"