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After surviving a school shooting, Hogg and his classmates have become some of the leading — if unlikely — voices on gun reform.

While other industries were devastated by the pandemic last year, police departments felt a much smaller impact.

Bernard Noble, whose case became a symbol of harsh drug laws, walks out of a Louisiana prison.

Florida set a new record with 217 covid-19 deaths on Tuesday, while Marion County also set its own record for daily deaths with 13.

The original false account of George Floyd’s murder challenges old habits of journalism.

We asked people behind bars what services and programs could have changed the course of their lives. Therapy, affordable housing and a living wage topped the list.

But is it legal? A California appeals court is going to decide.

The disparity remains no matter the circumstances and has persisted for decades.

In Baton Rouge, police dogs bit a teenager 17 or younger every three weeks, on average.

Investigators questioned BART officer's claim that he meant to use Taser, not firearm, during fatal encounter.

Censorship kept me from finishing a college essay behind bars. Now, prisons might keep readers from my memoir.

A prosecutor moonlighted on the cases of 355 defendants for nine judges. Their sentences range from probation to the death penalty.

Chicago police said they are investigating an incident caught on camera showing a 10-year-old boy being handcuffed and detained by several officers up against a squad car. He was mistakenly accused...

In prison for 20 years, Michelle was chosen for Harvard's elite graduate history program. Then she was unchosen.

The surprisingly high rate of fatal police shootings in rural America.

Proving your innocence is only part of the battle to put your life back together.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist will join the organization as a contributing editor, focusing on local accountability journalism about criminal justice.

While other industries were devastated by the pandemic last year, police departments felt a much smaller impact.

The conversations since George Floyd's death have felt different, journalist Jamiles Lartey says: There's less of the "few bad apples" argument and much more of the "What is wrong with this system?"

A new AJC analysis of a decade of records across 651 Georgia police departments and sheriff’s offices found departments that took more than $1,000 in surplus military gear, on average, fatally shot...

An 18-year-old said she was attacked at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where our story begins.

Early data show crime reports went down in some cities with coronavirus.

Two separate lawsuits seeking class-action status allege law enforcement officers targeted journalists and used unnecessary force against protesters during demonstrations in Minneapolis over the Ma…

Over the past 40 years, a multi-billion dollar industry built on the incarceration of immigrants has proliferated.

Many prisons, especially in the South, are named after racist officials and former plantations.

Buses bring holiday visitors to the women in an Illinois correctional center.

FOIA documents and a whistle-blower uncover how the Obama and Trump administrations used solitary in ways that critics say are arbitrary, cruel, and in violation of federal rules.

Mental illness, childhood abuse and brain injuries affect a large share of those who face the death penalty.

Anthony Childs was killed after a confrontation with Shreveport police over saggy pants.

Inmates at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna will no longer be able to receive in-person visits from relatives and friends beginning Oct. 10, when the facility will begin

Rodney Reed faces execution in Texas despite mounting evidence of innocence and bipartisan support.

The school in tiny O'Neill, Nebraska, was closed for the summer, but teachers opened it so children whose parents were caught in the raid had a place to go.

Almost two dozen kids are shot every day in the U.S. This 4-year-old was one of them.

1 in 5 African American deaths happens earlier than if they were White. Black doctors say the Flexner Report holds clues to the health system’s role in racial health disparities.

The Salt Lake City Police Department released body camera video of an officer shooting a 13- year old boy with autism on Monday afternoon, an incident that Mayor Erin Mendenhall and Police Chief Mi…

Thousands of kids were freed from juvenile detention during the pandemic. They were more likely to be White, data shows.

More than 35 members of Congress signed a letter asking Biden to commute the sentences of the remaining 50 people on federal death row.

In Baton Rouge, police dogs bit a teenager 17 or younger every three weeks, on average.

Riding along with the civilian “crisis responders” of Olympia, Washington.

“I knew that would be the case, somebody on nobody’s radar who I never would have found.”

While police in schools "do effectively reduce some forms of violence," they intensify the use of school discipline and arrests.

For the lives ruined, for justice denied, sorry.

Sheriff Ana Franklin, who loaned $150,000 from the food account to a now-bankrupt used car dealership, is scheduled for a hearing at the federal courthouse in Decatur on Friday at 1:30 p.m.

WATCH HERE: Not long before a young man who was with a quasi-paramilitary group throughout Tuesday night’s deadly protests was accused of killing two people and injuring a third, video

Indiana is one of five states without hate crime laws. A brutal attack and the frightening aftermath shows how the absence of this legislation leaves victims feeling abandoned.

In prison for 20 years, Michelle was chosen for Harvard's elite graduate history program. Then she was unchosen.

We asked people behind bars what services and programs could have changed the course of their lives. Therapy, affordable housing and a living wage topped the list.

Justice Clarence Thomas, a conservative, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a liberal, have both criticized the doctrine of "qualified immunity."

How reporting domestic violence works against women in family court.

Rethinking the words journalists use to talk about people who are currently or previously incarcerated.

“Nothing about life inside prison is normal.”

Recent rulings in a half-dozen states signal new momentum.

Diego Puma Macancela's lawyers have asked authorities to grant the student, 19, one more year in the country, allowing him to graduate high school and work on getting certified as an auto mechanic.

They describe an officer quick to use force and callous about their pain.

An 18-year-old said she was attacked at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where our story begins.

Journalism is a discipline of clarity. That’s why we’ve solidified our policy about how we talk about people who are currently in or have previously been in prison and jail.

With photographer Federica Valabrega, Rolling Stone documents immigrants who’ve lived in the U.S. for years but now face deportation.

The police commissioner said the timing had nothing to do with the prosecutors’ decisions to drop charges against certain protesters, but it seemed to reflect a growing divide.

Inmates in White County, Tennessee have been given credit for their jail time if they voluntarily agree to have a vasectomy or birth control implant, a popular new program that is being called...

Many prisons, especially in the South, are named after racist officials and former plantations.

The Marijuana Justice Act will remove remove weed from the list of controlled substances, making it legal at the federal level.

The recent discovery of a lost police file with witness statements about a 1990 murder in Philadelphia helped Shaurn Thomas walk free.

Samaria Rice, Tamir Rice’s mother, writes to her son about missing him deeply almost five years after he was fatally shot by a Cleveland, Ohio, police officer.

"I know you got to disturb the peace when you can't get no peace."

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will become the first state to eliminate bail for suspects awaiting trial and replace it with a still murky risk-assessment system under a bill signed Tuesday by...

Richard Mack has built a “Constitutional sheriff” movement to resist state and federal authority on guns, COVID-19 and now election results. A new survey shows just how many sheriffs agree with him.

One of the strangest, cruelest stories of wrongful conviction you’ll ever read.

Colin Kaepernick walked off the sidelines Tuesday — and onto Rikers Island — for a surprise visit with jail inmates that’s sparked a new battle in the NFL protest movement. The fo…

"I've tarnished the badge," weeps Wayne Jenkins, who robbed people, planted evidence and sold drugs.

A Kansas man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to the murder of an Indian-born engineer who was confronted about his immigration status at a bar, then fatally shot.

A sensitive women’s health issue came before the Committee on Military, Veterans and Regulatory Affairs on Monday: the price of pads and tampons in Arizona prisons. Not all the committee members were

"We want answers. We want to understand what happened."

That's probably an undercount. But data from San Jose offers a glimpse of what the national scale of police violence might be.

Bernard Noble, whose case became a symbol of harsh drug laws, walks out of a Louisiana prison.