New Year’s Day is observed very differently by men with long-term prison sentences. Each of us is doing time. I decided to ...

An analysis by The Marshall Project provides a window into what causes thousands of people to die in prisons and jails every ...

A steep rise in criminally charged people with severe mental illnesses has all but halted patients’ ability to get care in ...

James Williams is an ER doctor, a hunter, a gunshot victim — and the go-to expert for death row prisoners seeking an alternative to lethal injection.

Celebrezze resigned two years after The Marshall Project - Cleveland detailed how she steered nearly $500,000 in fees to a ...

Data collected under the Death in Custody Reporting Act has some serious problems. Here’s how we fixed some of them.

When Alan Lancaster died in January 2023 at South Central Correctional Center in Licking, Missouri, his family went looking for answers. The Missouri Department of Corrections recorded his death as an ...

Leona Godfrey was sitting down to dinner at a TGI Fridays in Orange, Connecticut, in December 2013 when she glanced at a television and saw her little brother’s name on the local news. Davon Eldemire ...

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The violence at the Democratic National Convention in 1968 shocked a fractured country. In a decade that had seen its share of bloody riots over the fight for civil rights, the Chicago Police ...

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Amairani Salinas was 32 weeks pregnant with her fourth child in 2023 when doctors at a Texas hospital discovered that her baby no longer had a heartbeat. As they prepped her for an emergency cesarean ...