North Carolina

Life Inside May 17

Why We Can’t Have Nice Things on Death Row

Not even an extra boiled egg.

By Timothy White

News May 1

How Prosecutor Reform Is Shaking Up Small DA Races

The goals of the effort are trickling down, even if the money isn’t.

By Joseph Neff

News January 29

North Carolina Fixes a Glitch — For One Guy

After a Marshall Project story, a man serving nine years in jail is moved to a prison.

By Joseph Neff

News January 16

When Your Prison Becomes Your Paycheck

Some states are welcoming back ex-offenders to work behind bars.

By Maurice Chammah and Joseph Neff

News November 29, 2017

No Mercy for Judges Who Show Mercy

North Carolina’s plan to stymie judges who waive fines and fees.

By Joseph Neff

News October 24, 2017

Innocent, Disabled and Vulnerable

A judge protects an exonerated man from his lawyer.

By Joseph Neff

Analysis October 20, 2015

Why is a Man Serving Life for a Murder that Feds Say Someone Else Committed?

The unusual case of Lamont McKoy.

By Andrew Cohen

News October 6, 2015

A Rural Sheriff Stares Down the Justice Department

In North Carolina case on racial profiling, U.S. suffers its first loss.

By Simone Weichselbaum

News August 3, 2015

How the Supreme Court Made It Legal for Cops to Pull You Over for Just About Anything

Even hanging an air freshener.

By Ken Armstrong

Feature July 29, 2015

A One-Man Justice Crusade in North Carolina

Before there was a conservative push for reform, there was ‘Bev’ Lake.

By Eli Hager

The Lowdown January 29, 2015

Converted Cellblocks

The many ways we recycle vacant prisons.

By Alysia Santo

News December 16, 2014

Was Lennon Lacy Lynched?

A brief modern history of racially motivated murder.

By Andrew Cohen and Christie Thompson

Feature November 15, 2014

Death by Deadline, Part One

How bad lawyering and an unforgiving law cost condemned men their last appeal.

By Ken Armstrong