Longread

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

Isolation rooms and paddling: What some schools in the South are doing to keep students in line.

Meet the elite chiefs who revolutionized policing nationwide, for better and for worse. Now they want to do it again.

Should prison sentences be based on crimes that haven’t been committed yet?

How a proven tool may be anything but.

Missouri keeps killing Jennifer Herndon’s clients. So she invented an alternate life.

As the Justice Department pushes reform, some changes don't last.

The man who was accidentally released from prison 88 years early.

A savage beating, a culture “beyond repair.”