Commentary
December 17
How to Fix Our Prisons? Let The Public Inside.
We need a broad national effort to recruit and place volunteers to educate and counsel incarcerated people.
Life Inside
September 12
“They booked me into a cell where there was a paper sign over the toilet saying DON’T DRINK THE WATER.”
News
July 1
A new study adds to the debate over racial bias in risk assessment tools widely used in courtrooms.
News
June 7
Broken spoons, beard trimmer parts and other ingenious, sometimes dangerous, tools used by incarcerated body artists.
Feature
March 22
Can New York City build its way out of mass incarceration?
News
June 26, 2018
How one ambitious program aims to reduce crime by changing how repeat offenders think.
News
March 28, 2018
Even after the high-profile death of Kalief Browder, jails in the rest of the state routinely isolate juveniles.
News
February 14, 2018
Johnson & Johnson uses the prospect of jail time to market a schizophrenia drug.
News
January 29, 2018
After a Marshall Project story, a man serving nine years in jail is moved to a prison.
News
January 23, 2018
A glitch in North Carolina law is trapping people for years in unequipped jails.