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A Death Row Inmate Was Released on Bail After His Conviction Was Overturned. Louisiana Still Wants to Execute Him.

by Richard A. Webster, Verite News

December 3, 2025, 2:00 pm EST
Michigan Lawmakers Working to Fix a Program That Failed to Compensate the Wrongfully Convicted

by Anna Clark

March 26, 2024, 5:00 am EDT
Colorado Lawmakers Mandate Audit of Halfway Houses Following ProPublica Investigation

by Moe Clark for ProPublica

May 1, 2023, 6:00 am EDT

49 stories published since 2012

A Death Row Inmate Was Released on Bail After His Conviction Was Overturned. Louisiana Still Wants to Execute Him.

by Richard A. Webster, Verite News

December 3, 2025, 2:00 pm EST
“We’re Broken”: As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Are Leaving in Droves for ICE

by Keri Blakinger

November 21, 2025, 5:30 am EST
An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.

by Richard A. Webster, Verite News

April 10, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
Is a New Mississippi Law Decreasing Jailings of People Awaiting Mental Health Treatment? The State Doesn’t Know.

by Gwen Dilworth, Mississippi Today

January 23, 2025, 5:00 am EST
“Everyone Will Die in Prison”: How Louisiana’s Plan to Lock People Up Longer Imperils Its Sickest Inmates

by Richard A. Webster, Verite News

March 28, 2024, 5:00 am EDT
Michigan Lawmakers Working to Fix a Program That Failed to Compensate the Wrongfully Convicted

by Anna Clark

March 26, 2024, 5:00 am EDT
They Were Wrongfully Convicted. Now They’re Denied Compensation Despite Michigan Law.

by Anna Clark, photography by Sarahbeth Maney

January 2, 2024, 5:00 am EST
He Fled a Traffic Stop in Louisiana. Now He’s in Prison for Life.

by Richard A. Webster, Verite News

September 8, 2023, 7:00 am EDT
Colorado Lawmakers Mandate Audit of Halfway Houses Following ProPublica Investigation

by Moe Clark for ProPublica

May 1, 2023, 6:00 am EDT
Roadside Drug Tests Used to Convict People Aren’t Particularly Accurate. Courts Are Beginning to Prevent Their Use.

by Ryan Gabrielson

April 25, 2023, 6:00 am EDT
She Reported Her Medication Was Stolen at a Halfway House. She Was Blamed Instead.

by Moe Clark, photography by Eli Imadali

December 5, 2022, 5:00 am EST
“Another Place to Warehouse People”: The State Where Halfway Houses Are a Revolving Door to Prison

by Moe Clark, photography by Eli Imadali

September 16, 2022, 5:00 am EDT
Michigan Proposes Juvenile Justice Reforms After Story of Teen Locked Up for Missing Homework Exposed Gaps in System

by Jodi S. Cohen

July 22, 2022, 1:30 pm EDT
Conditions at Mississippi’s Most Notorious Prison Violate the Constitution, DOJ Says

by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting

April 21, 2022, 12:30 pm EDT
The Invisible Hand of Steve Twist

by Nicole Santa Cruz

April 5, 2022, 1:00 pm EDT
After Grace’s Story, Michigan Will Study Its Juvenile Justice System

by Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, and Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press

June 9, 2021, 3:55 pm EDT
In Exclusive Jailhouse Letter, Capitol Riot Defendant Explains Motives, Remains Boastful

by Joshua Kaplan and Joaquin Sapien

May 11, 2021, 12:30 pm EDT
Judges Are Locking Up Children for Noncriminal Offenses Like Repeatedly Disobeying Their Parents and Skipping School

by Jodi S. Cohen and Duaa Eldeib

December 22, 2020, 6:00 am EST
The Way Prisoners Flag Guard Abuse, Inadequate Health Care and Unsanitary Conditions Is Broken

by Shannon Heffernan, WBEZ

December 2, 2020, 6:00 am EST
Her Addiction Landed Her in a Prison Segregation Wing. The Man She Says Abused Her Lives Free.

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News

June 20, 2020, 11:00 am EDT
The Prison Was Built to Hold 1,500 Inmates. It Had Over 2,000 Coronavirus Cases.

by Dara Lind

June 18, 2020, 2:00 pm EDT
Bill Barr Promised to Release Prisoners Threatened by Coronavirus — Even as the Feds Secretly Made It Harder for Them to Get Out

by Ian MacDougall

May 26, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
Justice Dept. Says It Will Investigate Deadly Conditions at Four Mississippi Prisons

by Jerry Mitchell and Debbie Skipper, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting

February 6, 2020, 1:13 pm EST
California Gave Billions in Taxpayer Dollars to Improve Jails. But That’s Not How These Sheriffs Are Spending It.

by Jason Pohl, The Sacramento Bee, and Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica

December 27, 2019, 8:00 am EST
New York City Paid McKinsey Millions to Stem Jail Violence. Instead, Violence Soared.

by Ian MacDougall

December 10, 2019, 5:00 am EST
How McKinsey Helped the Trump Administration Detain and Deport Immigrants

by Ian MacDougall

December 3, 2019, 5:00 pm EST
A Jail Increased Extreme Isolation to Stop Suicides. More People Killed Themselves.

by Jason Pohl, The Sacramento Bee, and Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica

November 5, 2019, 8:30 am EST
These Sheriffs Release Sick Inmates to Avoid Paying Their Hospital Bills

by Connor Sheets, AL.com

September 30, 2019, 6:00 am EDT
The Village Where Every Cop Has Been Convicted of Domestic Violence

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News

July 18, 2019, 11:30 am EDT
There Has Been an Explosion of Homicides in California’s County Jails. Here’s Why.

by Jason Pohl, The Sacramento Bee, and Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica

June 13, 2019, 8:00 am EDT
Cruel and Unusual: A Guide to California’s Broken Prisons and the Fight to Fix Them

by Sacramento Bee and ProPublica

May 28, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
California Tried to Fix Its Prisons. Now County Jails Are More Deadly.

by Jason Pohl, The Sacramento Bee, and Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica

April 24, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
Correction: Stories on Insanity Defense Included Factual Errors and Inaccurate Data

by ProPublica and

January 18, 2019, 8:03 pm EST
6 Young Men, Given Adult Sentences for “Minor” Infractions, Are Freed in Illinois

by Duaa Eldeib

December 28, 2018, 10:10 pm EST
Oregon Doctors Warned That a Killer and Rapist Would Likely Attack Again. Then the State Released Him.

by Jayme Fraser, The Malheur Enterprise

April 25, 2018, 5:30 am EDT
Innocent But Still Guilty

by Megan Rose

January 17, 2018, 3:00 pm EST
Unreliable and Unchallenged

by Ryan Gabrielson

October 28, 2016, 11:00 am EDT
Machine Bias

Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Lauren Kirchner and Surya Mattu

May 23, 2016, 8:00 am EDT
How We Analyzed the COMPAS Recidivism Algorithm

Jeff Larson, Julia Angwin, Lauren Kirchner and Surya Mattu

May 23, 2016, 7:59 am EDT
Alerted to Danger, New York City Failed to Curb Harm at Group Homes

by Joaquin Sapien

May 12, 2016, 8:00 am EDT
Data-Driven Sentencing May Punish the Poor and More in MuckReads Weekly

by Terry Parris Jr.

February 27, 2015, 1:56 pm EST
Sentenced to Wait: Efforts to End Prison Rape Stall Again

by Joaquin Sapien

May 16, 2014, 3:26 pm EDT
Judge Throws Out Murder Charge in Mississippi Fetal Harm Case

by Nina Martin

April 4, 2014, 2:00 pm EDT
Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them

by Joaquin Sapien

July 2, 2013, 1:21 pm EDT
Rape and Other Sexual Violence Prevalent in Juvenile Justice System

by Joaquin Sapien

June 6, 2013, 10:55 am EDT
Hunger Strikes and Indefinite Detention: A Rundown on What’s Going on at Gitmo

by Cora Currier

April 18, 2013, 9:45 am EDT
The Best In-Depth Reporting on Immigration (#MuckReads)

by Theodoric Meyer

February 13, 2013, 12:40 pm EST
Land of the Free: the Best Investigative Reporting on U.S. Prisons

by Cora Currier

June 29, 2012, 12:51 pm EDT
By the Numbers: The U.S.’s Growing For-Profit Detention Industry

by Suevon Lee

June 20, 2012, 2:41 pm EDT