To reduce recidivism, a program brings criminals face to face with their victims. The results aren’t always what you’d expect.

Working on the high seas is always dangerous, but the Dona Liberta has a particularly bad reputation.

Life on the outside is full of unpleasant surprises for longtime inmates.

After a lab linked to him was raided, James Jeffrey Bradstreet’s body was found with a bullet wound to the chest. His death was ruled a suicide, but other theories abound.

Alberto Nisman accused Iran and Argentina of colluding to bury a terrorist attack. Did it get him killed?

Oskar Groening, an SS officer whose duties included counting confiscated money, describes his time posted to Auschwitz.

How the world’s most notorious drug lord was captured.

Previously: Patrick Radden Keefe on the Longform Podcast.

To date, more than 500 people have been killed by police in America. This is the story of one, Charly Keunang.

The case of Richard Glossip, whose failed Supreme Court challenge of execution methods now leaves him waiting for death. But he still insists he’s innocent.

The Runaways, their manager Kim Fowley, and the rape of the band’s bassist, long kept a secret.

What it’s like to be a first responder amid the rise of synthetic marijuana.

Two successful tech geeks slip into organized crime.

His health failing and his business in tatters, the head of Death Row Records faces murder charges that could put him away for life.

A fugitive spends six years on the Appalachian trail.

She was the daughter of movie mogul Harry Warner. He was 15 years younger and embezzled her money, landing himself in jail. In prison, he offered a young inmate named Richard Matt $100,000 to kill her.

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

The death of an infant lands his father on death row in Louisiana.

Juries trust DNA. But should they?

The life of Reverend Clementa Pinckney, killed in Charleston.

An isolated 23-year-old Sunday school teacher living with her grandparents makes a new group of friends online who mail her chocolates and cash.

The truncated, violent lives of Richard Matt and David Sweat before their prison escape.

A murder case in Mississippi catches the eye of amateur sleuths on Facebook, who proceed to harass everyone involved in the case.

Feeling abandoned by America, families fight to save their children from ISIS.

The dilemma of the prison nursery.