Case in Point February 13

Doesn’t Anyone Want to Know Who Killed Louise Cicelsky?

New York prosecutors object to new DNA testing that might answer questions left unanswered at a murder trial.

By Andrew Cohen

News January 12

New York Cancels Private Prison Care Packages Program

An uproar over cost, selection — and coloring books.

By Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge

News January 3

How New York Could Change the Game for Its Criminal Defendants

Soon after a Marshall Project story, the governor proposes changes to an “outdated” evidence law.

By Beth Schwartzapfel

News November 8, 2017

New York Courts Say: Hand It Over

A new order reminds prosecutors to show their evidence.

By Beth Schwartzapfel

Feature August 7, 2017

Undiscovered

Defendants say evidence laws force them to take pleas while “blindfolded.”

By Beth Schwartzapfel

News March 14, 2017

Prosecutor: It’s Terrorism. Suspect: ‘I Was Just Saying Something Stupid’

If it was just a crazy, drug-induced outburst, is it worth 7 years in prison?

By Maurice Chammah

News January 5, 2017

A Parole Hearing in New York, With a Governor’s Blessing This Time

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

By Beth Schwartzapfel

Feature November 15, 2016

Inmates Say They Paid a Bloody Price for a Guard's Injury

Prisoners describe a rampage by correctional officers in a New York prison.

By Tom Robbins

Feature September 14, 2016

The Obstacle Course

Applicants said the country's largest state university system discriminated against former prison inmates. Now, the schools have decided to 'ban the box'.

By Simone Weichselbaum

The Frame May 3, 2016

What It’s Like to Perform Shakespeare in Prison

An encounter with the Bard transforms a troupe of inmate actors.

By Alysia Santo

Feature March 24, 2016

The Deadly Consequences of Solitary With a Cellmate

Imagine living in a cell that’s smaller than a parking space — with a homicidal roommate.

By Christie Thompson and Joe Shapiro

Q&A February 17, 2016

What Kalief Browder’s Mother Thinks Should Happen to Rikers

‘There was nothing I could do with him being in there.’

By Alysia Santo

News December 20, 2015

Spotting the ‘Red Flags’ of Abusive Prison Guards

Under pressure, New York says it will better track correctional officers

By Tom Robbins

News December 11, 2015

How a Stranger Helped One Man Rebuild His Life After Prison

‘I never thought people would care.’

By Tom Robbins

Life Inside November 25, 2015

A Rikers Thanksgiving

Cooking turkeys, building resumes.

By Maurice Chammah

Feature October 30, 2015

6,000 People Are About to be Freed From Federal Custody — Here’s What They’ll Face

Six men who spent years behind bars offer advice.

By Simone Weichselbaum

News October 20, 2015

New York City Jail Guards Are Fighting to Keep Their Records Secret

Amid abuse charges, union acts to ‘protect our officers.’

By Alysia Santo

Commentary October 5, 2015

How to Deal with Prison Brutality

It’s time to take these cases away from local prosecutors.

By Eliot Spitzer

Feature September 27, 2015

Why It’s So Hard to Fire an Abusive Prison Guard

Corrections officials say he injured an inmate and lied about it. He’s still a state employee. He’s more the rule than the exception.

By Tom Robbins

News September 16, 2015

In New York, Padlocked Jumpsuits for Prison ‘EXPOSERS’

An effective way to curb behavior, or ‘an extreme form of restraint’?

By Jie Jenny Zou

News August 27, 2015

When Prisons Need to Be More Like Nursing Homes

Finding new ways to treat the growing pool of older, ailing inmates.

By Maura Ewing

News August 23, 2015

A New York Prison-Yard Search and 10 Cases of Frostbite

Barehanded, inmates are ordered to grip a metal fence in 10-degree weather.

By Alysia Santo

Commentary June 19, 2015

Why Carlos Montero Has Been in Rikers for Seven Years Without Trial

Blame the judge, lawyers, and DNA.

By Andrew Cohen

News June 9, 2015

No Bail, Less Hope: The Death of Kalief Browder

A system that kept a teenager in Rikers for three years.

By Alysia Santo

Life Inside June 2, 2015

A Night with the NYPD

In which the rookie learns what police really think.

By Bob Henderson

News May 26, 2015

Shorter Sentences, Shrinking Prisons

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

By Beth Schwartzapfel

Q&A May 26, 2015

The Attica Turkey Shoot

Malcolm Bell, former special state prosecutor and whistleblower, on getting away with murder.

By Tom Robbins

News May 17, 2015

Feds Open Attica Investigation

Justice Department to study brutality in troubled prison.

By Tom Robbins

Asked and Answered March 25, 2015

‘People Forget that We Are Human Beings.’

A New York City cop of over 20 years on the media’s ignorance, the benefits of stop-and-frisk, and why he wishes he could live in New Jersey.

By The Marshall Project

News March 19, 2015

Attica Reads About Attica

A story of brutality clears the prison censors.

By Tom Robbins

Commentary March 13, 2015

How Not to Raise the Age

Governor Cuomo’s compromise leaves too many children behind.

By Alexandra Cox

News March 5, 2015

Attica’s Prosecutors Show Their Hand

And defend their decision to play it safe.

By Tom Robbins

News March 2, 2015

No Jail Time for Attica Guards

Brutal beating resolved with a misdemeanor plea.

By Tom Robbins and Lauren D'avolio

Feature February 28, 2015

Attica’s Ghosts

A savage beating, a culture “beyond repair.”

By Tom Robbins

News February 24, 2015

The Prison Rape Videos: Three Out of Four Stars

The first reviews are in, mostly amazed that New York actually made these films.

By Eli Hager

Feature February 20, 2015

‘Trust Nobody, and Proceed with Caution’

Two new safety videos aim to protect New York inmates from prison rape.

By Eli Hager

Looking Back December 29, 2014

The Willie Bosket Case

How children became adults in the eyes of the law.

By Eli Hager

Life Inside November 15, 2014

Dying in Attica

An aging bank robber faces the end.

By John J. Lennon