Parents and children from a detention center in Texas found themselves dropped at a border town shelter with few means to leave.

A federal lawsuit filed in 2016 argued that the county’s misdemeanor bail system effectively jailed people for being poor, ...

Melvin Cancer was killed by guards beating him inside the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, a new report shows.

Black Mississippians won a Voting Rights Act case that challenges how the state elects supreme court justices. But that ...

For New York City’s mayor, the hard part isn’t deciding whether or not to shut down Rikers, but figuring out how to do it safely and in a timely way.

Shot over two years, the Critics’ Choice-nominated film values quiet moments. “We’re trying to refuse a spectacle,” says director Nimco Sheikhaden.

Many instances of police misconduct go unreported, making it impossible to calculate an accurate total number of incidents in ...

Our reporting shows that in at least 49 states, plus Washington, D.C., foster care officials obtain federal benefits intended for children in their care. In collaboration with NPR, The Marshall ...

Ayanna Harris-Rashid was sitting up in bed, her newborn son latched to her breast, one hand scrolling on her phone, when the police called. She was wanted on a felony charge of child neglect.

America’s prison population is rapidly graying, forcing corrections departments to confront the rising costs and challenges of health care in institutions that weren’t designed to serve as nursing ...

The best criminal justice reporting tagged with "Jason Pulliam," curated by The Marshall Project.

A warden who oversaw a culture of abuse at two different federal prisons has a new job — running a national training academy for the Bureau of Prisons. Andrew Ciolli was in charge of the penitentiary ...