The popular remakes of 3:10 to Yuma, The Magnificent Seven, and True Grit are all among the best Western movies of the 21st ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 inmates with commuted death sentences ...

In Stanley Prison, the oldest in Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai sits in a dark, windowless cell, completely alone. He has been held in ...

A judge ruled that the Trump administration’s plan to send the men to the nation’s harshest prison rendered their attempts to challenge the transfer a “sham” process.

One in nine people in prisons globally have a history of injecting drug use and their risk of HIV, viral hepatitis and tuberculosis is up to 45 times higher than in the general population. Yet access ...

Advocates, activists, Democratic lawmakers, and families of incarcerated New Yorkers gathered at the State Capitol to call for passage of three criminal justice bills that would address outdated ...

Fitzhugh Brundage’s gripping new book, aptly titled A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War, represents an essential contribution to this rethinking in its account of what was ...

When you see prisons in movies, they seem organized. There’s a routine, a couple of fights, and usually a clear sense of control.

I explore what Finnish prisons look like and how their approach differs from other countries. Wedding plans turn to grief: Pilot Shambhavi Pathak's death shocks Delhi Do this one thing regularly to ...

Idaho’s rising rates of incarcerating state prisoners in county jails and out of state have led to skyrocketing costs. The price for operating the state’s 10 prisons are also on the rise, according to ...

The Marshall Project is a nonprofit newsroom covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for our newsletters to receive all of our stories and analysis. The federal prison system has a ...

A ban on sending books and magazines to inmates in Arkansas prisons goes into effect Feb. 1, putting into place the strictest regulations in the country on sending outside publications to the ...