Some experts hope Eric Lander, the president’s choice for new science adviser, will crack down on bad forensics in courtrooms.

In an excerpt from his new book, ‘Let the Lord Sort Them,’ Marshall Project staff writer Maurice Chammah explains where a 1970s legal team fighting the death penalty went wrong.

A Nebraska couple fighting to marry behind bars wouldn’t be the first: Three decades ago, two prisoners took their bid to marry all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

It’s been nearly 25 years since Michigan adopted a controversial visitation policy. Families have been fighting it ever since.

Portland’s first female chief, Penny Harrington, recalls the steep climb to the top.

Every law student knows John Brady’s name. But few know the story of the bumbling murder that ended in a landmark legal ruling.

How the most notorious gangster of all got railroaded in Philadelphia.

How a landmark report on the 1960s race riots fell short on police reform

Reliving the infamous Attica prison revolt and the bloody siege, minute-by-minute, in the social media age