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December, 2025

An Overlooked Source of Information in Missouri Prison Deaths: The Coroner
Criminally Ill: Systemic Failures Turn State Mental Hospitals Into Prisons
Cuyahoga Judge Celebrezze Resigns After Being Charged With Records Tampering
Dozens Locked in Hinds County’s Jails Without an Indictment — Some for Over a Year
En Las Sombras de un Centro de Detención de Inmigrantes, una Pequeña Casa Ofrece Refugio
Federal Agents Pepper Spray Protesters During Tucson Taco Shop Raid
How a Public Record Cost Cuyahoga County Taxpayers $650,000
How Cases Like Luigi Mangione’s Could Widen the Death Penalty Divide
How People Are Dying In America’s Prisons and Jails
How We Cleaned Up and Clarified Federal Data on Deaths in Custody
ICE Data Reveals What Happened to 1,600 People Arrested During Chicago’s Blitz
ICE Threw Thousands of Kids in Detention, Many For Longer Than Court-Prescribed Limit
In New York Prisons, Lack of Medical Care Led to Preventable Deaths
In the Shadow of an Immigrant Detention Center, a Small House Offers Refuge
It’s Hard to Grieve in Prison. This Guide Can Help
Missouri Journalists: How to Access the State Prison System’s Comprehensive Death Data
Mohican Can’t Accept More Children Amid State Probe
Nurses Say Staff Shortage at Missouri Prison Means Skipped Medication, Long Waits for Care
Our Best Stories of 2025
Some of Our Best Work of 2025
Some of the Ways We Brought the Criminal Justice System to Life Through Visuals in 2025
Starve and Charge: Aramark Cut Free Prison Meals to Boost Profits, New Suit Claims
‘Substantial Risk’: Mohican Young Star Academy Admissions Suspended as State Investigates
The St. Louis Jails Are Running Out of Officers
We Spent a Year Covering Deaths Behind Bars. Here’s What We Learned.
What’s It Like to Go Through Menopause in Prison? We Want to Know
What’s So Scary About Treatable Conditions Behind Bars?
What Trump’s Orders on Marijuana and Fentanyl Actually Do
Why New Orleans Became Trump’s Newest Immigration Target
Women Are Sent to This Federal Prison for Dialysis. They Say It’s Killing Them.