Police used the Vallejo, California, rapper’s music against him. He used his jailhouse album to call them out by name.

Deputy Mayor Renita Francois will lead a new office that plans to dispatch more mental health professionals instead of police ...

The U.S. government is reneging on key parts of a court settlement it struck with families whose children were seized at the ...

Scrutiny of in-custody deaths hits roadblocks in Hinds County, state Legislature. This is The Marshall Project - Jackson’s ...

Although there are still instances of transphobia, I no longer let it break me down,” writes Lexie Handlang. “I feel sorry ...

At the Garden Time office in Providence, R.I., tree steward Mario Monteiro (right) greets Victor Fabian (left), a graduate of the group’s Green Reentry Job Training program. Mon ...

In May, prosecutors in Seattle charged a sheriff’s deputy with raping a 17-year-old girl. The deputy met the teenager while he was an adviser in his department’s youth mentorship program known as ...

The United States is experiencing historic drops in crime across almost all categories, including murder, burglary and motor vehicle theft. But crime statistics don’t necessarily change how safe ...

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The handwritten letter arrived days before Christmas 2022. “THIS IS AN EMERGENCY ISSUE!!!” it began. “PLEASE HELP.” Signed by 14 people incarcerated in one of the highest security federal prisons in ...

Eight years before a jury sentenced him to death for two murders and he confessed to three more, Michael Bell spent time at a Florida reform school so violent that the state later apologized for the ...