Criminal Justice

A look at President Obama's criminal justice legacy: pardoning drug offenders but increasing deportations of illegal immigrants

We meet Thomas Barrett, a former homeless man who paid thousands in probation fees over the theft of a two-dollar can of beer.

VICE examines the ways these local governments have turned broken-windows policing into profit, and meets the people who are fighting back.

VICE News spends time with a man with a felony conviction in New York who is fighting to get his voting rights back.

In July 2015, Barack Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. He invited VICE along to film the historic event for part of a documentary, Fixing the System, which investigated America's broken criminal justice system.