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Days before his scheduled execution in Texas, Ramiro Gonzales speaks on faith, legacy — and apologizing to the family of his victim, Bridget Townsend.

Inside the latest legal and legislative efforts to close state constitutional loopholes that allow slavery as punishment for a crime.

A new state law will allow more people in jails and prisons to cast absentee ballots, but many obstacles remain.

Jaleel Stallings was swept up in the chaos of protests over George Floyd’s murder. The outcome changed his life.

Authorities use the term to describe the condition of some people who die. But some medical organizations say it’s useless or racist pseudoscience.

A longtime journalist serving on a jury must weigh the flaws of the system against the holes in the gun and drug case he heard.

The Marshall Project found nearly 100 people who were punished for the actions of their abusers under little-known laws like “accomplice liability.”

How one of the oldest Black policing organizations in the country shaped law enforcement in Cleveland.

The police department has struggled to solve homicides, partly due to shoddy detective work, staffing shortages and eroding community trust.

Washington, like most states, has a law intended to protect health care workers. Instead, it’s led to prosecutions of people with severe mental illness.

People leaving prisons and jails are at greater risk of illness and death, but for years they couldn’t use the government health insurance program.

These St. Louis families have waited years for answers. They say police seem to have forgotten their loved ones.

The city’s homicide unit has dealt with short staffing, long hours and a ballooning DNA backlog.

Several officers in the homicide unit faced internal complaints that they slept on the job, failed to get key evidence and lied to superiors.

We asked 12 people with criminal convictions what they think of the verdict in Trump’s hush money trial.

In the past decade, police solved fewer than half of the homicide cases with Black victims and two-thirds of the cases with White ones.

Getting and interpreting homicide clearance data involved litigation, complex analysis and patience.

In one of America’s deadliest cities, police have struggled to solve killings due to staffing shortages, shoddy detective work and lack of community trust.

We spoke with seven reproductive rights organizations — here’s what we found.

In this new book excerpt, incarcerated rapper Alim “RRome Alone” Braxton describes his early attempts to record vocals over a phone in the dayroom.

A federal judge in Mississippi joined other courts in recently rejecting police arguments that qualified immunity protected their actions.

After Cleveland officer Vincent Montague shot a Black man, he got promoted. Then he allied with Black Lives Matter, and his life went off the rails.

The award recognizes our 2023 investigation exposing lax prison discipline for abusive guards in New York state prisons.

While some universities have sought peaceful approaches, others have used aggressive policing that bucks research from the protests following George Floyd’s murder.

Under her stewardship, the news nonprofit more than doubled in size, opened local newsrooms and won its second Pulitzer Prize.

There’s growing evidence that former officers with troubling histories of abuse can easily find second careers in private security.

Adam Roberts reflects on the highs and occasional lows of training Labrador retrievers for the Puppies Behind Bars program.

Our feature on mitigation specialists who help save people from the death penalty was recognized for making “significant contributions to public understanding of trauma-related issues.”

Proving sex crimes often requires evidence that is generally excluded to protect the rights of the accused.

With its refusal to impose oversight or consistent standards in local defense, Mississippi risks falling further behind rest of the U.S., critics say.