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

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

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 ...

Now, a new national study out of one of these collaborations between the University of California, Irvine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital shows that at the peak of the pandemic in 2020, people inside ...

Shattered teeth. Punctured lungs. Broken bones. Over a dozen years, New York State officials have documented the results of attacks by hundreds of prison guards on the people in their custody. But ...

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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 theory, all of ...

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In this data-driven era, if you’ve been arrested it’s increasingly likely the judge deciding whether to send you home or to jail to await trial will consult actuarial math. Specialized ...