Target of legislation is sex-traffickers; critics call it a ‘scarlet letter.’

The question is trickier than you’d think for police, and the courts, to answer.

A California case may decide.

Your doctor, your pharmacist... and the police.

Prisoners can be forced to work without pay — the Constitution says so.

Three prisons were ordered to provide transgender health care. Three prisoners were suddenly set free.

Boston cops weather the endless snow.

A new order reminds prosecutors to show their evidence.

In the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Pennsylvania says no.

Georgia squeezes “offender-funded” supervision.

A widespread heroin problem could open the door to a once-radical idea.

A federal judge considers $1 million in fines for one state’s “pervasive and intractable failures.”

A new report could have a big impact on New York’s prison population — if anyone pays attention.

In prison, seeing the doctor can cost up to a month’s salary.

New lawsuits by transgender people challenge bans on name changes for those convicted of crimes.

Prosecutors will be required to turn over information to the defense much earlier in a criminal case, among other changes.

New, retroactive sentencing guidelines begin to kick in.

Are U.S. drug companies against the death penalty? Sort of.

For some, science is outpacing the High Court on juveniles and the death penalty.

We may never know, because “it is so easy to fall through the cracks.”

Corrections facilities are ground zero for treating hepatitis C — but at a cost.

Dylann Roof and the challenges of proving bias.

A new report says care varies widely between Louisiana’s jails and prisons.

Soon after a Marshall Project story, the governor proposes changes to an “outdated” evidence law.

A new study adds to the debate over racial bias in risk assessment tools widely used in courtrooms.

A ‘60s radical faces very different political atmosphere than her co-defendant did a decade ago.

“A judge who deals with prosecutors every day is not going to say, ‘You intentionally discriminated on the basis of race, and you lied about it with pretextual reasons.’”

Missouri lawsuit says that the state’s parole process puts too many people back behind bars.

Defendants may be presumed innocent — but can judges ensure they look innocent?

Medications are effective, but jails are still slow to provide them.

How the Americans With Disabilities Act could change the way the nation’s jails and prisons treat addiction.

Lawsuits say the practice severely penalizes those too poor to pay.

Court Watch NYC is the latest local group monitoring the criminal justice system as it happens.

Alabama pitches prison reform as a states' rights issue.

Some doctors are abandoning the long-held belief that treating addiction is impossible without talk therapy.

The new ruling could worsen existing racial disparities in states that condemn teens to die in prison.

It’s the first time in years the highest court allowed such a suit to proceed. The ruling suggests it is reconsidering protections for officers who cause harm.

Three years after the First Step Act required the Bureau of Prisons to treat more people with medications for opioid addiction, only a tiny fraction are receiving them.

Behind bars, drug use is rampant and uniquely deadly, new data shows.

An investigation by The Marshall Project, NBC News and ProPublica found that youth in a Louisiana lockup were held in isolation around the clock for weeks.

Louisiana’s high court considers the fate of more than 1,000 people serving sentences handed down by “Jim Crow juries.”

The governor signed the state’s first law restricting isolation for youth after two suicides and an investigation by The Marshall Project, ProPublica and NBC News into harsh conditions in a new juvenile facility.

Joe Biden ran on the most progressive criminal justice platform of any major party candidate in generations. So what can he actually do?

The North Carolina state Supreme Court has upheld the controversial Racial Justice Act, which opponents repealed in 2013