The Marshall Project surveyed people in federal facilities for advice about the complaint process — and how to fix it.

Sending Kites” is a monthly column from The Marshall Project that explores challenges faced by people with incarcerated loved ones and by people in jails and prisons. Check our previous columns. Rules ...

Prisoners in federal facilities must file most grievances with the guards — a system they say exposes them to retaliation, ...

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 ...

Non-traditional state agencies, from college police to wildlife protection, have been pulled into immigration enforcement.

As the nation celebrates two and a half centuries of independence, we put together a syllabus of some essential criminal ...

This essay is part of Redemption Songs, a limited-run newsletter that spotlights one song each week by incarcerated artists. Sign up now to get a new song each Sunday afternoon until September. Parts ...

William “Billy” Marshall, the relatively unknown head of the West Virginia corrections department, has been selected to lead the troubled federal Bureau of Prisons, a Trump administration choice that ...

Like Gov. Mike DeWine, most agreed the death penalty is broken and does not deter crime, but not always with the same ...

Alfred Roberts was feeling a similar disillusionment at New York’s Sing Sing Correctional Facility on January 6, 2021, as he ...

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. On a sunny day in ...