Our reporting shows how public records drive impact and what may be missed when governments delay or deny access.

Last year, The Marshall Project, along with St. Louis Public Radio and APM Reports, won the Brechner Freedom of Information Award for a project on unsolved homicides. The team spent nearly three years ...

Sunshine Week serves as an annual reminder of the important role that public records play in government transparency and examining how it functions. Without access to hold government officials to ...

Our reporting shows how public records drive impact, and what may be missed when governments delay or deny access.

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Until the 1980s, an annual prison rodeo offered a chance for men inside to perform and sell albums. Now we’re making them available to you.

Reem Akkad, formerly a top editor at The Washington Post, has been named managing editor of The Marshall Project, the Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit newsroom that covers the U.S. criminal justice ...

News Inside Issue 22 takes a hard look at how incarcerated women face unique challenges — and why their stories deserve to be ...

A federal lawsuit filed in 2016 argued that the county’s misdemeanor bail system effectively jailed people for being poor, ...

In a prison system rife with drugs, a new civil rights lawsuit accuses the Missouri DOC of punishing people for addiction, rather than treating it.

As a young girl growing up in Missouri, Megan Jolly loved to read, dance and dress up. For her 20th birthday, she and her mother wore formal gowns to dinner on a cruise ship to Cozumel, Mexico. She ...

Lawmakers brace for a U.S. Supreme Court case that could affect voting rights for Black Mississippians in particular.