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? Sign up for future newsletters. What counts as an ...

Prisoners are defecating in paper bags and overflowing toilets, there aren’t enough extra blankets to go around, and mess hall kitchens are churning out half-rations of unidentifiable cold food. As a ...

From statehouse bans to audit workarounds, governments are scrambling to police the license-plate readers they rushed to ...

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? Sign up for future newsletters. In 1988, a nurse at ...

On Oct. 1, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider the government’s appeal in the case of Ricardo Aparecido Barbosa da Cunha, which could have major implications for the Trump administration’s ...

After federal immigration agents ended their aggressive enforcement blitzes in the streets of Minneapolis and Chicago, President Donald Trump promised mass deportations with “a little bit of a softer ...

Police forces in the U.S. were originally founded to secure private property—including human beings.

Cleveland police officers stop thousands of people every year, mostly to hand out traffic tickets. In 2023, the department reported making nearly 17,000 stops — about 45 a day. More than 700 of those ...

In 1964, researcher Bruce Jackson traveled to prisons in Texas to record the songs that Black work crews had inherited from their enslaved ancestors. Jackson used a reel-to-reel tape recorder to ...

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? Sign up for future newsletters. The opening scenes ...

Robert Roberson faces execution in Texas on Oct. 16 for the 2002 murder of his young daughter Nikki Curtis. For years, a growing pool of supporters — from the lead detective in his case to Dr. Phil — ...

For two months after their arrest, Yerson and Kelly Vargas and their 6-year-old daughter, Maria Paula, were held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, a family detention facility in Texas. One ...