When the prosecutor in a 1924 trial focused on the murder of a priest backed the suspect–and everything that followed.

The vans, operated by for-profit companies, carry tens of thousands of people every year. They lack beds, toilets, and medical services. More than a dozen women have alleged they were sexually assaulted by guards while being transported; since 2012, at least four people have died.

“I grew up idolizing my brother. Then he killed a man.”

Overcrowding in prisons leads to doubling up inmates in solitary confinement, regardless of their homicidal intentions or mental health.

An attorney pieces together a life cut short.

Voices from the inside of New York City’s infamous jail.

On the penalties imposed – or not – on prison guards who have sex with inmates.

An innocent man was executed – in 1761. Voltaire got on the case.

Truancy is punishable by fines, probation, and in some cases throwing parents in prison. Does any of that really keep kids in school?

Brutality persists at the famous prison.

A teenaged prisoner is left unprotected by America’s laws against prison rape.

How bad lawyering and an unforgiving law cost condemned men their last appeal.

In 2004, Cameron Todd Willingham was executed for starting a fire that killed his three daughters. The case hinged on the testimony of a jailhouse informant named Johnny E. Webb. Today, Webb says he lied.