Under Trump, the U.S. increasingly sends immigrants all over the nation with little warning, leaving families and attorneys ...

The Harlem MC explains how prison gave him the freedom to rap about more than material things. This essay is part of ...

As evidence of poor detention conditions grows, voluntary departures have skyrocketed since President Donald Trump returned to office.

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 ...

A man who fled an uprising in the Middle East decades ago, and whose son serves in the U.S. Air Force, was taken into custody during a routine immigration appointment in Des Moines, Iowa. Another man ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the accumulated weight of violence, cruelty, politics and hopelessness took over my psyche, I knew it was time to hang ...

The best criminal justice reporting tagged with "Rebecca Pennell," curated by The Marshall Project.

Reporters and editors have long believed that terms such as “inmate,” “felon” and “offender” are clear, succinct and neutral. But a vocal segment of people affected by the criminal justice system ...

Mississippi’s Black voters recently won a victory that puts them on the brink of having greater sway over who sits on the state’s Supreme Court. But that win may be short-lived. This article was ...

One morning in 2019, Kenyatta Emmanuel Hughes was released from Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, New York, and traveled 70 miles south to Carnegie Hall. That night, he stood before a crowd — ...