Four Lowcountry jails have failed every inspection since 2022, with state inspections finding dangerous overcrowding, ...

Immigration experts in the United States and Latin America and groups that track Venezuelan prisons said Venezuela has no known policy or practice of sending prisoners to the U.S., and Venezuelan ...

In early returns in Tuesday's special primary election for the vacant state Senate seat in the River Valley, retired businessman Wade Dunn of Greenwood and businessman Brad Simon of Paris were leading ...

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is being held in the troubled New York City jail that has housed high-profile defendants ...

Nigeria’s correctional facilities are severely overstretched, thus negating the spirit of justice in a country with a ...

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. Using information from a federal ...

Every year millions of people cycle through America’s prisons and jails. Many of them never make it home. Incarcerated people die of medical neglect. They die because guards beat them or because they ...

Ruby Welch assists a student at Arkansas Beauty School in Little Rock on Dec. 10, 2025. Welch is one of the many formerly incarcerated Arkansans who stays tied to the criminal justice system after ...

A Catholic prison official in South Korea has expressed alarm over severe overcrowding and inadequate health care in the country’s prisons, warning that systemic shortcomings are worsening conditions ...

Forrest Abrams of Fayetteville was 18 years old when he was found dead in a Little Rock alleyway with four bullets in his back. Darrell Dennis was convicted of the 2013 murder. A man with a lengthy ...

The prison system across the United States is being scrutinized for issues such as overcrowding, understaffing, and poor treatment of inmates. These concerns raise questions about prison safety, ...