Shot over two years, the Critics’ Choice-nominated film values quiet moments. “We’re trying to refuse a spectacle,” says director Nimco Sheikhaden.

This article is part of a collaborative investigation into Mississippi’s Deadly Prisons. An investigation by The Marshall Project - Jackson and local reporting partners found that understaffing and ...

A warden who oversaw a culture of abuse at two different federal prisons has a new job — running a national training academy for the Bureau of Prisons. Andrew Ciolli was in charge of the penitentiary ...

America’s prison population is rapidly graying, forcing corrections departments to confront the rising costs and challenges of health care in institutions that weren’t designed to serve as nursing ...

This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters here. Despite the ...

The federal prison system has a significant shortage of psychologists, and longtime bureau employees say the effect is catastrophic. According to the Bureau of Prisons, more than one-third of ...

When Jerry Hartfield walked out of the Hutchins State Jail in Dallas on Monday into the sunlight and the arms of his family, he became one of the most unlikely prisoners ever to be freed early in ...

This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters here Earlier this ...

One afternoon in the fall of 2019, bailiffs guided a gray-haired man in a green sweatshirt and shackles into a courtroom in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The 83-year-old’s eyes scanned the gallery, where ...

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Even if a person does not directly commit a crime, they can still be sent to prison for it. Every state in the U.S. has a version of “accomplice liability” — laws that allow someone to be punished for ...

There were more than 1,900 people killed in St. Louis between 2014 and 2023. Homicide detectives from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department managed to solve about 47% of those cases. For Black ...