Moldy mattresses, 24/7 lights and constant noise contribute to a persistent health and safety crisis in prisons and jails.

Some state and local lockups are facing federal intervention due to problems ranging from filthy cells to violent abuse.

Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to ...

From feces on the wall to constant gang calls, LaMarr W. Knox details the horrors of the transit unit at New York’s Green ...

A tough legal precedent had kept his clients from their day in court, so Greg Belzley decided there was only one thing to do ...

A prosecutor had been threatening mothers who used drugs while pregnant with long sentences — until Brandy Moore fought the ...

With new restrictions on gender-affirming care, prisons confiscate underwear from trans people and compel them to cut their ...

Rashon Venable spent three productive years at New York’s Sullivan Correctional Facility. A surprise shutdown sent the Muslim ...

Thousands of people without political connections are also hoping for Joe Biden to pardon them before he leaves the White ...

Conservative state lawmaker Jenifer Branning has defeated moderate incumbent Jim Kitchens for a seat on the Mississippi ...

The best criminal justice reporting tagged with "Black parents," curated by The Marshall Project.

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...