At fourteen, Ron Bishop helped convict three innocent boys of murder. They’ve all lived with the consequences.

For years, employees of the Pierre enjoyed some of the most enviable union jobs in New York City. How much of that will survive the pandemic?

Two men were sent to prison for killing a French tourist in Manhattan in 1987. Can they overturn their convictions?

A group of volunteers is helping incarcerated people negotiate a system that is all but broken.

Philadelphia’s District Attorney reinvents the role of the modern prosecutor.

How Derrick Hamilton went from wrongfully convicted to legal scholar to free.

The murder of Tayshana “Chicken” Murphy in the Harlem projects.

Miriam Carey died at the hands of the Secret Service. Over a year later, her family has no real answers about what happened to her.

Sixteen-year-old Kalief Browder was accused of taking a backpack. He spent the next three years on Rikers Island, without trial.

In 1997, 8-year-old Chaneya Kelly reported that she had been raped by her father, Daryl Kelly, sending him to prison for up to 40 years. Since then, she’s wanted more than anything to take it back.

The mysterious life and death of Dow B. Hover, the man who ran New York’s electric chair.

The battle over stop-and-frisk within the NYPD’s ranks.

Trevell Coleman wasn’t sure whether he’d killed a man. But after 17 years, he needed to find out.

Life inside Long Island’s largest cluster of sex offenders.

A glimpse into the life and death of a soldier who committed suicide while on duty in Afghanistan:

The Army recently announced that it was charging eight soldiers — an officer and seven enlisted men — in connection with Danny Chen’s death. Five of the eight have been charged with involuntary manslaughter and negligent homicide, and the coming court-martial promises a fuller picture of the harrowing abuse Chen endured. But even the basic details are enough to terrify: What could be worse than being stuck at a remote outpost, in the middle of a combat zone, tormented by your superiors, the very same people who are supposed to be looking out for you? And why did a nice, smart kid from Chinatown, who’d always shied from conflict and confrontation, seek out an environment ruled by the laws of aggression?

The last thing child-welfare supervisor Chereece Bell wanted to see was what happened to 4-year-old Marchella Pierce. The last thing she expected was to go to jail for it.

When New York built a prison designed to house two men in a single cell, it launched a new experiment in crime control. A look at life inside this prison and in the tiny town surrounding it.