News March 28

Rikers Doesn't Put Teens in Solitary. Other New York Jails Do.

Even after the high-profile death of Kalief Browder, jails in the rest of the state routinely isolate juveniles.

By Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge

News February 26

👀 👀 👀 the Prosecutors

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

By Beth Schwartzapfel

Feature August 7, 2017

Undiscovered

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

By Beth Schwartzapfel

News May 24, 2016

For Some Prisoners, Finishing Their Sentences Doesn’t Mean They Get Out

The special problem of being a sex offender.

By Christie Thompson

News April 11, 2016

The State That is Taking on the Prison Guards Union

For decades, New York state’s corrections officers union has held the power in disciplinary decisions.

By Michael Winerip, Michael Schwirtz and Tom Robbins

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 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

Life Inside October 27, 2015

Confessions of a Grand Juror

Ten days in a room with 22 other jurors. What could possibly go wrong?

By Caroline Grueskin

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 15, 2015

New York City’s Big Idea on Bail

Step one: let’s find out if it works.

By Elizabeth Glazer

News August 17, 2015

When ‘Broken Windows’ Meets Tinted Windows

In New York, darkened car windows lead to more police encounters than stop and frisk.

By Alysia Santo

Commentary July 9, 2015

The Problem with NYC’s Bail Reform

It trades one burden for another.

By Robin Steinberg and David Feige

Feature June 28, 2015

This is Rikers

From the people who live and work there.

By The Marshall Project

Commentary June 22, 2015

Kalief Browder was a Good Kid. Should That Matter?

The not-so-nice kids don’t deserve to be brutalized, either.

By Nell Bernstein

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 11, 2015

Why New York Dropped Corizon

It’s not just the big profits and dead inmates.

By Maura Ewing

Commentary June 9, 2015

Fixing the Jail Where Kalief Browder was Held

Former corrections chief Martin Horn has some ideas for Rikers Island.

By Martin F. Horn

Life Inside June 2, 2015

A Night with the NYPD

In which the rookie learns what police really think.

By Bob Henderson

News April 3, 2015

Gangs of New York

Allegations in Harlem the latest blow to a celebrated anti-violence program.

By Simone Weichselbaum

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 February 2, 2015

Khaled Who?

An accused terrorist goes on trial. Manhattan yawns.

By Clare Sestanovich

The Lowdown January 29, 2015

Converted Cellblocks

The many ways we recycle vacant prisons.

By Alysia Santo

News January 20, 2015

‘My Fellow Americans’

Reimagining the president's State of the Union speech.

By Andrew Cohen

News January 14, 2015

NYC Declares an End to Solitary for Inmates Under 21

Now comes the hard part.

By Clare Sestanovich

News January 8, 2015

Life Without Police

A view from the corner.

By Eli Hager

News January 6, 2015

A Short History of Police Protest

From Calvin Coolidge to Bill de Blasio.

By Clare Sestanovich

News December 8, 2014

What it’s Like to be Black In the NYPD Right Now

“Morale is already dead.”

By Simone Weichselbaum and Christie Thompson

News December 4, 2014

The Garner Decision in Black and White

Reckoning with the great justice divide.

By Andrew Cohen

News December 3, 2014

New York Explains Itself

Some questions and answers about the city’s new mental health initiative.

By Andrew Cohen

News December 2, 2014

Therapists in Blue

Can New York’s police learn to handle the mentally ill?

By Dana Goldstein