Criminal Justice

President Obama visits a federal prison to learn more about the criminal system.

Michael K Williams and VICE News investigate the juvenile criminal justice system.

Red Cards unpacks the shooting of former NFL Saints player, Will Smith. The investigation takes us to New Orleans, a vibrant city with a historically controversial legal system.

Filmmaker James Burns spent two years following Jason Bobbitt, an ex-convict and father of five who, despite attempts to retain meaningful employment, fails and returns to prison.

VICE trekked to Alaska to tell the story of the Fairbanks Four, a group of native teens who were wrongfully convicted of murder in 1997.

VICE News visited a Colorado prison as longtime inmates used virtual reality for the first time.

In 2013, Jason Hernandez was the first latino American to receive clemency from President Obama along with other non-violent drug offenders in an unprecedented gesture to address injustice in the criminal justice system.

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

We meet up with James Burns just after being released from a voluntary stint in solitary confinement at the La Paz county jail.

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.