Justice Lab December 5

When Rape Allegations Are in Doubt

What research tells us in the wake of the Rolling Stone controversy.

By Dana Goldstein

News December 4

The FCC Looks into the Prison Telephone Racket

Phone home, go broke.

By Beth Schwartzapfel

Justice Lab December 4

The Misleading Math of ‘Recidivism’

Even the Supreme Court gets it wrong.

By Dana Goldstein

The Rules December 3

Why are Some Inmates in South Carolina Wearing Pink Jumpsuits?

Punishing the act of self-pleasure.

By Clare Sestanovich

News December 3

New York Explains Itself

Some questions and answers about the city’s new mental health initiative.

By Andrew Cohen

News December 2

Therapists in Blue

Can New York’s police learn to handle the mentally ill?

By Dana Goldstein

News December 2

Pulling the Teeth from the Prison Rape Elimination Act

Delay, defy, defang.

By Alysia Santo

News December 1

A Plea from the Right

Conservative stalwarts urge Texas to spare Scott Panetti.

By Maurice Chammah

News December 1

Crazy or Faking It?

The impending execution of Scott Panetti and the search for a standard of sanity.

By Maurice Chammah

Q&A December 1

Will Millennials Embrace Prison Reform?

A couple of Harvard guys aim to find out.

By Bill Keller

News December 1

Ohio’s New Frontier in Secrecy

Protecting doctors who testify for lethal injections.

By Maurice Chammah

Commentary November 30

What Death Penalty Opponents Don’t Get

There are fates worse than death.

By James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

The Frame November 26

Blurred Lives

A portrait series captures the toll of long prison sentences on the people who serve them.

Photographs by Amy Elkins

News November 26

Ferguson, Continued

What to read in the aftermath.

By Andrew Cohen

Feature November 25

Cincinnati: Ferguson’s Hope or Hype?

A closer look at the Ohio city that everyone is touting as the model of police-community harmony.

By Simone Weichselbaum

News November 25

Law and Disorder in Ferguson

10 must-reads from coverage of the decision, and the protests.

By Andrew Cohen

News November 24

Now Comes the Civil Suit

It's not over for Ferguson.

By Simone Weichselbaum

News November 24

Do Convicted Killers Deserve Free Speech?

In the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Pennsylvania says no.

By Beth Schwartzapfel

Justice Lab November 24

10 (Not Entirely Crazy) Theories Explaining the Great Crime Decline

From aging to gentrification to Prozac.

By Dana Goldstein

LETTER TO THE EDITOR November 21

“My students and I are on a mission to do what we can to help others who could be on their way to prison or in prison, realizing that there is more to a prisoner than his conviction. ”

Responding to Dying in Attica

News November 21

Deporting ‘Felons, Not Families’

Obama’s immigration plan has no room for criminals. But what’s a criminal?

By Christie Thompson

News November 21

The Corrections

Tales from a week of overturned convictions.

By Andrew Cohen

Commentary November 21

Is the Criminal Justice System Defensible?

A debate between Judge Harvie Wilkinson III and Stephen Bright.

By Andrew Cohen

News November 21

Cosby in Context

Seven facts about rape.

By Dana Goldstein

Justice Lab November 20

Overlooking Rape

New Orleans is not the only city where police don't get it.

By Dana Goldstein

Asked and Answered November 20

‘I'm Only Allowed One Kiss and Hug.’

What can Charles Manson’s fiancee expect? The experience of this inmate’s wife offers some clues.

By The Marshall Project

Looking Back November 20

The Awakening of Thurgood Marshall

The case he didn’t expect to lose. And why it mattered that he did.

By Gilbert King

News November 19

What We’ve Learned About Racial Disparity in Policing

A brief overview of the numbers.

By Andrew Cohen

The Lowdown November 19

Fakeup

How women in prison remake makeup.

By Simone Weichselbaum

News November 18

Is Mass Incarceration Going Away?

New numbers from 28 states suggest otherwise.

By Andrew Cohen

The Frame November 18

The Men Who Should Have Been Free

Revisiting “The Innocents,” one of the first photo series to explore the lives of the wrongfully convicted.

Photographs by Taryn Simon

News November 17

Waiting for Ferguson

A grand jury's secret, thankless ordeal.

By Andrew Cohen

News November 17

Obama’s Prison Crisis

Crowded cells, aging inmates, soaring costs.

By Andrew Cohen

News November 17

Right and Left Unite on Drug Sentencing. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Will Senator Grassley kill the Smarter Sentencing Act?

By Christie Thompson

Q&A November 17

Eric Holder on His Legacy, His Regrets, and His Feelings About the Death Penalty

An interview with the outgoing attorney general.

By Bill Keller and Tim Golden

Feature November 16

Death by Deadline, Part Two

When lawyers stumble, only their clients fall.

By Ken Armstrong

Graphics November 15

By the Numbers

A guide to the latest stats in the world of criminal justice.

By Gerald Rich, Andy Rossback and Ivar Vong

Life Inside November 15

Dying in Attica

An aging bank robber faces the end.

By John J. Lennon

Feature November 15

Death by Deadline, Part One

How bad lawyering and an unforgiving law cost condemned men their last appeal.

By Ken Armstrong

Feature October 6

No Country for Young Men

Junior Smith was a troubled kid who needed help. Instead, West Virginia sent him to jail.

By Dana Goldstein

Feature August 3

The Prosecutor and the Snitch

Did Texas execute an innocent man?

By Maurice Possley