They’re supposed to safeguard pretrial detainees. But America’s oldest law enforcement agency is suffering from a massive dereliction of duty.

When a brain injury leads to a personality change and then prison time, a neuroscientist wonders if his brother could have been saved.

Gun violence, high school football and what coaches are doing to keep their players safe

They took away everything left in me that was human and made me a monster."

An investigation into how police departments can fail to solve rape cases but still get credit.

When Jake Millison went missing, his family said he’d skipped town. But his friends refused to let him simply disappear.

The case against a notorious cat burglar, who is accused of stealing more than $12 million worth of the South’s finest sterling silver.

On the public-health risks of the American prison system.

Why a Nova Scotia community is still searching for the killer of a beloved farmer thirty years later.

Sean Quinn was once a billionaire folk hero, but then things turned very dark in the borderlands.

13 women, a months-long trial, and a jury’s choice.

Cesar Sayoc turned his loyalty toward Donald Trump into a literal assault on the President’s Democratic enemies in 2018.

What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, “genius,” Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.

A former inmate on justice, violence, and jail time.

After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work that cracked the case and brought down the government.

Private executioners paid in cash. Middle-of-the-night killings. False or incomplete justifications.

Inside America’s fast-growing civilian tactical training industry.

Gold mined in the jungles of Peru brought riches to three friends in Miami—but it also carried ruin.

Lawyer Richard Luthmann was a Roger Stone-worshipping member of the Staten Island political scene. Then the fake Facebook posts began.

Can face-to-face meetings between a victim and an abuser—a form of restorative justice—help a society overwhelmed with bad behavior?

Covid allowed Raquel Esquivel and 4,500 others to be released from overcrowded federal prisons. So why is she back behind bars?

A sketch artist and a grieving mother set out to solve a cold case. The more they dug, the more terrifying the truth became.

When a child vanished in Nova Scotia, online sleuths got involved in the search. Then they lost their way.

A shipping container spewing radiation appears mysteriously at an Italian port, prompting a larger look at the anonymous world of international shipping.

Courtroom testimony about dogs detecting dead bodies keeps sending people to prison—even without physical evidence. Critics say the science is lacking.