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How Missouri Denied Condemned Men Spiritual Advisers at Their Deaths - 2026-01-08T06:00:00-05:00
“We’re talking about constitutional rights in someone’s dying moments,” one advocate said.

Before ICE Shooting, Immigration Agents Repeatedly Used Deadly Force - 2026-01-07T21:40:41-05:00
The killing of a Minneapolis woman is latest by ICE and Border Patrol officers in recent months. Others have been wounded or threatened with guns.

Who’s in Ohio’s Psychiatric Hospitals, How Did They Get There and When Do They Get Out? - 2026-01-07T06:00:00-05:00
Criminal defendants are overwhelming an understaffed state mental health system that, a few years ago, served thousands more patients.

Trump’s Vow to Arrest Immigrants Lifted Private Prison Stocks. Then Why Did They Tank? - 2026-01-06T06:00:00-05:00
ICE wants to detain more than 100,000 people at a time, but the historic ramp up has been slower than Wall Street expected.

How a Long Sentence Changed New Year’s Into a Time of Reflection, Not Celebration - 2026-01-01T06:00:00-05:00
This is what New Year’s looks like after 20 years in prison.

How People Are Dying In America’s Prisons and Jails - 2025-12-23T06:00:00-05:00
An analysis by The Marshall Project provides a window into what causes thousands of people to die in prisons and jails every year.

How We Cleaned Up and Clarified Federal Data on Deaths in Custody - 2025-12-23T06:00:00-05:00
Data collected under the Death in Custody Reporting Act has some serious problems. Here’s how we fixed some of them.

Cuyahoga Judge Celebrezze Resigns After Being Charged With Records Tampering - 2025-12-22T17:15:00-05:00
Celebrezze resigned two years after The Marshall Project - Cleveland detailed how she steered nearly $500,000 in fees to a longtime friend.

Criminally Ill: Systemic Failures Turn State Mental Hospitals Into Prisons - 2025-12-22T05:00:00-05:00
A steep rise in criminally charged people with severe mental illnesses has all but halted patients’ ability to get care in Ohio’s state psychiatric hospitals.

What Trump’s Orders on Marijuana and Fentanyl Actually Do - 2025-12-19T09:15:00-05:00
When the federal government changes how it categorizes a drug on paper, what changes in the real world?

ICE Data Reveals What Happened to 1,600 People Arrested During Chicago’s Blitz - 2025-12-18T06:00:59-05:00
Most of those arrested were swiftly shuttled to a sprawling array of detention centers in 13 states, many with reports of troubling conditions.

We Spent a Year Covering Deaths Behind Bars. Here’s What We Learned. - 2025-12-17T06:00:00-05:00
Every year, thousands of people die in prisons, jails and law enforcement custody.

Some of Our Best Work of 2025 - 2025-12-17T06:00:00-05:00
Online, in print, and on radio and TV — we examined Trump administration orders, immigration detention, deaths behind bars and more this year.

The St. Louis Jails Are Running Out of Officers - 2025-12-17T06:00:00-05:00
Too many detainees and too few staff have pushed the City Justice Center and County Jail to a breaking point.

ICE Threw Thousands of Kids in Detention, Many For Longer Than Court-Prescribed Limit - 2025-12-17T06:00:00-05:00
Former immigration staffers argue ICE is choosing to detain families for prolonged periods to speed deportations and compel them to leave.

Women Are Sent to This Federal Prison for Dialysis. They Say It’s Killing Them. - 2025-12-16T06:00:00-05:00
Patients at Carswell medical prison in Texas describe unsanitary conditions, missed treatments and substandard care.

What’s It Like to Go Through Menopause in Prison? We Want to Know - 2025-12-16T06:00:00-05:00
Your insights will help inform a guide about the critical life stage that we’ll share with incarcerated people.

How Cases Like Luigi Mangione’s Could Widen the Death Penalty Divide - 2025-12-15T12:00:00-05:00
Even as more state leaders try to expand capital punishment, fewer jurors are choosing it.

Some of the Ways We Brought the Criminal Justice System to Life Through Visuals in 2025 - 2025-12-15T06:00:00-05:00
Through evocative illustrations and photography, we tackled themes of deplorable prison conditions, healing after gun violence and deaths in custody.

What’s So Scary About Treatable Conditions Behind Bars? - 2025-12-13T12:00:00-05:00
Medicines, procedures, and specialists can be scarce in prison, or people don’t get them until it’s too late.

It’s Hard to Grieve in Prison. This Guide Can Help - 2025-12-12T18:00:00-05:00
From breathing exercises to journaling prompts, we compiled steps that help with processing difficult emotions while locked up.

Missouri Journalists: How to Access the State Prison System’s Comprehensive Death Data - 2025-12-12T06:00:17-05:00
The Missouri Department of Corrections generated its first report with every prison death in its system. Here’s how to use it.

How a Public Record Cost Cuyahoga County Taxpayers $650,000 - 2025-12-10T16:20:00-05:00
A worker’s demotion after releasing court records to The Marshall Project - Cleveland led to a lawsuit alleging retaliation and witness intimidation.

Nurses Say Staff Shortage at Missouri Prison Means Skipped Medication, Long Waits for Care - 2025-12-08T06:00:00-05:00
Current and former employees at Jefferson City Correctional Center say the shortage is causing unrest. They blame the state’s contractor, Centurion Health.

Starve and Charge: Aramark Cut Free Prison Meals to Boost Profits, New Suit Claims - 2025-12-06T12:00:00-05:00
A lawsuit claims the prison food company is cutting institutional meals to force incarcerated people to purchase costly food from the same vendor.

Federal Agents Pepper Spray Protesters During Tucson Taco Shop Raid - 2025-12-05T21:40:00-05:00
See video from the scene as ICE officers attempted to disperse a crowd in the street outside the taqueria.

‘Substantial Risk’: Mohican Young Star Academy Admissions Suspended as State Investigates - 2025-12-05T18:05:00-05:00
Weeks after The Marshall Project - Cleveland found escalating violence, Ohio’s embattled youth treatment center is once again facing scrutiny.

Dozens Locked in Hinds County’s Jails Without an Indictment — Some for Over a Year - 2025-12-05T06:00:00-05:00
The newly appointed federal receiver has asked the county’s district attorney to move more cases, while the DA has asked the county for more money.

In the Shadow of an Immigrant Detention Center, a Small House Offers Refuge - 2025-12-05T06:00:00-05:00
Amid rising ICE arrests, volunteers provide aid — a meal, a bed, gas money — to anyone visiting someone detained in remote rural Georgia.

Why New Orleans Became Trump’s Newest Immigration Target - 2025-12-04T06:00:00-05:00
Recent legal changes, a Trump-friendly governor and a large immigration detention infrastructure could make the New Orleans crackdown easier for the administration.

In New York Prisons, Lack of Medical Care Led to Preventable Deaths - 2025-12-03T06:00:00-05:00
More than 30 people with dangerous but treatable ailments — infections, obstructed bowels and asthma attacks — died in the past decade.

An Overlooked Source of Information in Missouri Prison Deaths: The Coroner - 2025-12-01T06:00:00-05:00
When corrections officials aren’t forthcoming with records, coroners can offer families the details needed to find closure or pursue accountability.

Finding Humanity in the Cracks of Justice - 2025-11-26T06:00:00-05:00
News Inside Issue 21 presents stories of connection, resistance and hope amid deteriorating conditions and discriminatory policies.

Getting a Single Parking Ticket in Lorain Led Hundreds to Lose Their Driver’s Licenses - 2025-11-25T15:55:37-05:00
A Marshall Project - Cleveland investigation has prompted city officials to stop issuing parking citations that, for years, led to license suspensions.

How to Support Our Journalism — and Have Your Donation Matched - 2025-11-25T06:00:00-05:00
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How ICE Is Making It Harder for Immigrants to Escape Domestic Violence - 2025-11-22T12:00:00-05:00
Increased enforcement and Trump’s policy changes are causing some people to remain in abusive relationships rather than risk deportation, experts say.

Homeless Camp Sweeps Can Harm Health. Some Cities Are Trying a New Way. - 2025-11-20T05:00:00-05:00
Some localities are addressing street homelessness with a new approach, which experts say can clear encampments while protecting the health of people who are forced to move.

Are Americans Worried About Crime? It Depends on How They Voted. - 2025-11-19T06:00:00-05:00
The sitting president can be a better predictor of how safe someone feels than what the crime data shows.

There Was No Way to Know How Many People Died in Missouri Prisons — Until Now - 2025-11-18T06:00:00-05:00
For years, the state’s Department of Corrections cobbled together death records from multiple sources. New data reveals annual totals for the first time.

How We Got Comprehensive Death Data From the Missouri DOC - 2025-11-18T06:00:00-05:00
After repeated questions about missing deaths in the state’s existing logs, the department shared annual counts for the first time.

Why No One Knows How Many People Die in Mississippi’s Local Jails - 2025-11-17T06:00:00-05:00
From medical neglect to suicide, the lack of information on jail deaths can allow the same deadly problems to lead to more deaths.

ICE Raids Kept On During the Shutdown, But the Detention Data Stayed Hidden - 2025-11-15T12:00:00-05:00
More than seven weeks have passed since the last comprehensive release of detention and deportation numbers.

The Competing Visions to Fix the Country’s Juvenile Justice Crisis - 2025-11-08T12:00:00-05:00
Some states keep adding beds in already troubled facilities, while others are trying alternative approaches to detention or keeping some children out of the system altogether.

‘It Was Chaos’: How an Ohio Youth Treatment Center Tried to Put an End to Rising Violence - 2025-11-06T06:00:04-05:00
A year after taking over Mohican Young Star Academy, new owners and leadership face questions from workers, police and neighbors about its direction.

A Leading Prison Journalist Upends Our Obsession With True Crime - 2025-11-04T06:00:00-05:00
John J. Lennon tells Bill Keller that he “wanted to tell a different story about the guilty” in his new book.

Trump Says Federal Deployments Make Cities Safer. Local Officials Disagree. - 2025-11-04T06:00:00-05:00
In Chicago, Memphis and elsewhere, residents allege a surge of federal agents and military troops is making it harder to police and prosecute crime.

Tree Hanging Death at Delta State University Raises Dread of Mississippi’s Past Lynchings - 2025-11-04T06:00:00-05:00
A Black freshman’s apparent suicide on campus is one of at least nine Black men who have been found hanging from trees since 2000.

Who Should Pay Victims of Police Misconduct? Only the Officers, Some Cities Say. - 2025-11-01T12:00:00-04:00
Denver, Minneapolis and other cities want to avoid paying large sums owed to victims of some types of misconduct. But will the officers pay up?

The Last Words of a Man Who Died in Prison From a Treatable Cancer - 2025-10-31T06:00:08-04:00
Months before his death, Ralph Marcus explained how a COVID-era leg injury led to a rare bone cancer that didn’t have to be fatal.

Cuyahoga Sheriff Backs Off Tasha Grant Investigation Amid Family Criticism - 2025-10-30T18:00:42-04:00
Trumbull County sheriff will now lead the investigation into the Cleveland woman’s restraint death, meeting family demands for independent probe.